WASHINGTON ‒ The Pentagon on Oct. 28 said it carried out three strikes on four alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 people, in the most significant wave of attacks so far in President Donald Trump's military campaign targeting the flow of illegal narcotics.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said one individual survived the strikes, which he said took place on Oct. 27 in international waters. No United States service members were injured.

"The Department has spent over TWO DECADES defending other homelands," Hegseth wrote in a post on X that included video footage of the strikes. "Now, we’re defending our own. These narco-terrorists have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda, and they will be treated the same. We will track them, we will network them, a

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