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The U.S. military has deployed eight warships and more than 6,000 sailors and Marines to the Caribbean Sea in an unusually large buildup since summer.

The force includes amphibious assault ships, F-35B jets, armed Reaper drones, and vessels with Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of striking targets hundreds of miles away.

The deployment began under the Trump administration’s “war against narcoterrorism” campaign, focusing on waters near Venezuela and the broader Caribbean region.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast of Venezuela since this summer, when the Trump administration first began to shift a

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