Air Force brings great-power conflict concept to the Caribbean. When Kentucky Air National Guard troops recently “seized” an airport on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, they were practicing Agile Combat Employment , a maneuvering scheme intended to enable the Air Force to generate combat power despite the anti-access/area denial efforts of China, Russia, and others. But experts said the wargame—part of the larger, long-planned Emerald Warrior exercise organized by Air Force Special Operations Command—might also serve as a message to drug cartels and unfriendly governments in the region. Defense One’s Thomas Novelly reports, here .

Commentary: Mexico’s new president is trying to fight the cartels; a U.S. invasion would do more harm than good. That’s the argument in Foreign

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