00:00U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hexeth vows that the U.S. military will target drug cartels with the same
00:07tactics used against ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
00:10Speaking at a jungle operations training course in Panama, Hexeth describes that any group trafficking drugs or threatening Americans will
00:18be classified as a military target.
00:22Anywhere you traffic drugs or you threaten the American people or our partners, you are a target just like ISIS
00:28or Al-Qaeda.
00:28We spent 25 years refining the kill chain on how to diagnose and target networks halfway around the world.
00:36How about we take those skill sets with the best Americans to apply it here?
00:39And that's why I meant what I said about putting cartels on notice.
00:43Hexeth also said the U.S. remains the preferred partner for countries around the world despite growing Chinese, Russian and
00:50Iranian influence.
00:52Hexeth accused some of those powers of putting their own interests first, citing Russian air defense systems that failed to
00:58stop an American military raid in Venezuela
01:00and the expulsion of Cuban and Russian personnel from the country.
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