Drone threat over Guantanamo

Cuba’s quiet stockpiling of more than 300 attack drones from Iran and Russia since 2023 is flashing a new warning sign in the Caribbean — and Havana is reportedly talking strike targets from Guantanamo Bay to U.S. ships and even Key West. The systems do not close Cuba’s vast military gap with the United States, but they do add a dangerous asymmetric threat as the regime deepens ties with Washington’s enemies. At the same time, more than 600,000 Cubans have tried to reach U.S. shores since 2021, turning migration, narcotics, espionage and now drones into a growing homeland security headache. The Pentagon is moving too: the USS Nimitz carrier group was deployed to the Caribbean this month as contingency planning intensifies.