Operation Southern Spear: What the 22nd MEU's 10-Month Caribbean Deployment Teaches Operators About Reading Narco Threat Environments in Rea

Podcast: Situational Awareness Tactics · Circle Of Insight Productions

Opublikowano: 2026-07-08

For ten months, the Marines and Sailors of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit operated across the Caribbean under U.S. Southern Command's Operation Southern Spear, moving through one of the most complex and dynamically shifting threat environments in the Western Hemisphere, one where transnational narco-terrorist networks operate with military-grade weapons, sophisticated logistics, and the kind of adaptive counter-surveillance tradecraft that demands a level of environmental reading far beyond standard law enforcement or conventional military doctrine. This episode breaks down what that deployment actually looked like on the ground, how amphibious forces were trained and positioned to identify, track, and interdict...