The US military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, in the latest escalation and buildup of military forces in the region, the Pentagon announced Friday.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to US Southern Command to "bolster US capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States," Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a social media post.
