South America

SEALs and Delta lads find themselves working together in an infinite number of training scenarios. I’m put in mind of a particular event deep in the triple-canopy jungle of South...

As Colombia’s first leftist president, Gustavo Petro’s historic victory has clearly upended Colombian politics, continuing Latin America’s general shift leftward, particularly in a populist direction. However, Petro will not have...

The government of Nicaragua has extended an invitation to the Kremlin for Russian troops to train inside the Central American country and conduct joint military exercises with the Nicaraguan armed forces....

Here’s What You Need to Remember: But that doesn’t mean the U.S. military couldn’t invade Venezuela in the event Washington makes good on past threats and orders the Pentagon to intervene in...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The problem is that an invasion could further destabilize Venezuela, hurt, kill or displace countless innocent Venezuelans, alienate the U.S. government in a region that...

Due to the ongoing sanctions against Russia, it is impossible to import a newly produced civilian Kalashnikov rifle into the United States, which is where Kalashnikov USA fills the void. Kalashnikov...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The lesson of the nineteenth-century United States for twenty-first-century Brazil is this: holidays don’t last forever. Use them “We have no concept of war,” confides...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Brazil’s navy craves ships normally meant for conventional naval warfare—but it craves them for eccentric reasons. In one sense the Marinha resembles the U.S. Navy...

Here’s What You Need to Know: History may yet call on Brazil to play its part in South Atlantic or hemispheric defense. “We have no concept of war,” confides a strategy...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: A CIA report in the 1950s suggested that Hitler had survived the Second World War and lived in Argentina. The report was based on a...

This administration takes Western Hemisphere foreign policy seriously. Witness, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent four-country trip south of the border. That said, there is so much more that needs...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Florida-based Southern Command is the smallest and least heavily-armed of the Pentagon’s 10 unified commands. SOUTHCOM’s permanent forces number just 1,200 civilians and uniformed...