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US Army Reserve Reviews Units for Potential Cuba Operation Amid Intensified Pressure
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Moneycontrol•26-09-2026, 13:20
US Army Reserve Reviews Units for Potential Cuba Operation Amid Intensified Pressure
- •The US Army Reserve is assessing its capacity to provide police, medical, engineering, and logistics units to US Southern Command within four months.
- •An internal Army message, reviewed by CBS News, asks subordinate commands to assess the availability of six types of formations, potentially needed in 90-120 days.
- •While the message doesn't explicitly name Cuba, anonymous US officials linked the request to ongoing military planning involving the island nation.
- •Formations being assessed include a combat sustainment support battalion, an engineer battalion, an expeditionary sustainment command, a medical brigade, a forward resuscitative and surgical detachment, and a military police brigade.
- •This planning follows earlier reports of US military preparations around Cuba, including seabed reconnaissance and heightened readiness for some airpower elements, amid intensified US economic and political pressure on Havana.
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The US Army Reserve is assessing six types of formations, including a combat sustainment support battalion, an engineer battalion, an expeditionary sustainment command, a medical brigade, a forward resuscitative and surgical detachment, and a military police brigade.
President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that his administration is seeking a fundamental change in Cuba, asserted that the country's communist government will fall, and stated that freedom will be coming to Cuba.
The Cuban delegation walked out during Trump's remarks. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected the comments as falsehoods and slanders, emphasizing that Cuba has the right to remain an independent and sovereign country.
