The United States and Venezuela teeter on the brink of war. The imminent arrival of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier strike group (CSG) may bring matters to a head. These charts and tables show where the situation stands now—the array of U.S. firepower and the U.S.-Venezuelan military balance—how it reached this point through an intensified counterdrug campaign and expanded naval presence, how a conflict might unfold, and what a U.S. victory could look like.
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