Commentary
“No other country on planet Earth—and it’s not even close—could pull this kind of operation off.”—Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
While the Trump administration is not known for its modesty, Hegseth’s statement rings true. Sure, there are two, maybe three, countries that might be capable of executing a cross-border attack against a nation with Venezuela’s military capabilities. But when it comes to an operation requiring the level of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance on display—combined with the military assets needed to conduct such a strike thousands of miles from home—the list is very short: the United States.
