An elite Army unit capable of inserting some of the American military’s most deadly special operations forces into a fight has been deployed to the Caribbean as President Trump exerts an increasing show of force in Venezuela.

Trump has moved significant U.S. military assets, including eight warships, about 10,000 troops, a nuclear-power submarine and fighter jets, to the southern Caribbean, close to Venezuela. Earlier this week, the president confirmed he authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out covert operations in Venezuela.

On Armed Forces Day, we pause to honor the men and women of America’s Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Space Force. Every day, throughout our homeland and in far-flung regions of the world, our fighting forces valiantly ...

He’s offered everything. You know why? Because he doesn’t want to f–k around with the United States,” Trump said of Maduro.

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the U.S. is now in an “armed conflict."

The US military rescued the pair after two suspected “narco terrorists” were killed in the strike at the submersible vessel on Thursday, in what was at least the sixth such strike in the Caribbean by the US forces since September.

WASHINGTON — Historically, the U.S. military has been an engine for cultural and social change in America. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s vision for the armed forces he leads runs counter to that.

In 1794, for example, the French tethered a hydrogen balloon above a battlefield to spy on Austrian manoeuvres below. Reconnaissance balloons also saw action in the American civil war. In the Franco-Prussian war they carried messages between besieged Paris and the outside world.

The month of May is synonymous with Memorial Day Weekend, but the entire month was actually designated by the United States Congress in 1999 to be Military Appreciation Month. In addition to Memorial Day—which honors those who have died during military ...