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Wall Street Journal • Shelby Holliday

Pentagon Deploys Aircraft Carrier to Caribbean in Escalation of Anti-Drug and Regional Pressure Campaign

Wall Street Journal reports: The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s military campaign to target drug smugglers and threaten governments in Latin America.

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Reuters • Mike Stone

US military takes steps to adapt new hypersonic weapons to mobile launchers

By Reuters: Defense startup Castelion said on Friday it has won contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon with current U.S. Army systems, the first step toward allowing the military to place the powerful and nearly unstoppable weapons around the world.

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