US Dusts Off War Plans Against Venezuela As Caribbean Troop Build-Up Gains Velocity

By streiff 

The Trump Department of War is drawing up plans for kinetic operations against drug traffickers inside Venezuela, according to a thinly sourced NBC News story. Those strikes could begin in a “matter of weeks.” The strikes would be primarily carried out by drones and would target drug cartel members and leadership, as well as drug labs.

Putting aside the brittleness of the story, there are some considerations that move it from the “totally freakin unlikely” category to “slightly plausible.” First, a disclaimer. The U.S. military has plans for just about any contingency. This dates back to at least the 1930s, when the U.S. developed a series of color-coded war plans that envisioned conflicts with Great Britain, Australia, and China, as well as with Germany and Japan. This kind of plan is useful. For instance, OPLAN 1002 envisioned countering a Soviet strike into central Iran. Norman Schwartzkopf took the same basic plan as a starting point for the First Gulf War because the logistics were essentially the same. A war plan focused on Venezuelan cartels would work equally well for Colombian, Central American, or Mexican cartels. So just because a plan is being developed, it doesn’t follow that anything else will happen…

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