WASHINGTON, Oct 25, CMC – As the Trump administration intensified its military build-up in the Caribbean, a Pentagon spokesman said on Friday that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and its carrier air wing, to the Caribbean in aid of what the administration says is its counter-drug initiative.
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