Whether the target is drugs or Maduro, U.S. could be hindering its own military with deadly boat strikes

Voices more closely connected to the U.S. military have emerged this week to raise their own questions about a spate of boat strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats in the Western hemisphere carried out by the Trump administration since Sept. 2.

An anonymous Pentagon employee and a retired U.S. Air Force colonel have expressed concern that the focus on Latin American drug flows will affect American military might elsewhere in the world and lead to unintended consequences. That could include reducing co-operation with allies on the administration's goal of reducing U.S. fatalities from drug toxicity by throttling supply.

"The administration's legal framework is nonsense," a civilian employee of the Department of Defence wrote Tuesday in an op-ed for Gannett's Military Times website .

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