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The U.S. Defense Department’s regional command for South America
is the smallest of the department’s 10 unified commands. It permanently oversees just 1,200 personnel plus a few thousand troops and a handful of ships on temporary deployments.
But that doesn’t mean the U.S. military couldn’t invade Venezuela in the event Washington makes good on past threats and orders the Pentagon to intervene in the slowly-collapsing South American country.
Not, of course, that invading Venezuela is a good idea. Experts agree it’s not.
Most major U.S. military forces are by nature expeditionary, as they typically must travel long distances to participate in major operations.