Defense Secretary Pete Hegazy announced Operation Southern Spear as the overarching DOD operation to disrupt the flow of narcotics in the Western Hemisphere.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
The claim is supported: the Lead Inspector General report to Congress states that on November 13, 2025, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Operation Southern Spear as the overarching DoW operation to disrupt Western Hemisphere narcotics flow from cartels designated as terrorist organizations.
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… The Trump administration has been laying the fin legal justification, as well as the moral and philosophical foundation, for this quote unquote war since essentially their first day in office. More than two months after the first strike, Defense Secretary Pete Hegazy officially announced Operation Southern Spear as the quote overarching DOW operation to disrupt the flow of narcotics in the Western Hemisphere from drug cartels that the president has named as a designated terrorist organization, parentheses DTOS. …
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Supports. The Lead Inspector General report to Congress states that on November 13, 2025, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Operation Southern Spear as the overarching DoW operation to disrupt the flow of narcotics in the Western Hemisphere from designated drug cartels.[1]
Supports. Wikipedia reports the operation was formally named on 13 November 2025 by Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, as an expansion of an earlier operation of the same name; this corroborates the announcement but is an unrated, secondary source.[3]
Context. The Pentagon and War Department updates describe Operation Southern Spear as the counter-narco-terrorism campaign in the Western Hemisphere, consistent with its role as the overarching narcotics-disruption operation.[2][4]
Sources
4 sources: 2 primary, 2 not rated
- 1[PDF] Operation Southern Spear, Report to Congress, January 1, 2026 ...media.defense.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2Officials Provide Progress Update on Major Operation 1 Year After its Launchwar.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Operation Southern Spear - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Pentagon Provides Update on Operation Southern Spear ...southcom.mil · not rated · cited for: context
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