Trump War Department Seeks To Eliminate Narco-Terrorists From ‘America’s Neighborhood’ With New Mission

President Donald Trump’s Department of War (DOW) announced Thursday evening it would launch Operation Southern Spear to crack down on drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth wrote on X that the operation seeks to remove “narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere” and secure “our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people.” The operation comes after the DOW in recent weeks carried out strikes on suspected “narco boats” that allegedly trafficked deadly drugs off the coast of Venezuela.

“President Trump ordered action — and the Department of War is delivering,” Hegseth added in his post. “The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it.”

The secretary also specified in his post that the military mission is to be led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), a Miami-based unified combatant command of the DOW responsible for U.S. military activity in the Caribbean as well as Central and South America.

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in the world, and its strike group arrived in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility  on Tuesday, just two days before Hegseth announced Operation Southern Spear, the U.S. Navy announced. The Pentagon in late October authorized the carrier strike group to be sent to Latin America.

When asked for comment, the DOW referred the Daily Caller News Foundation