U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has announced and published footage of several strikes carried out earlier today, December 15, by military forces under Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS), against three alleged narco-trafficking vessels operating within international waters in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, the vessels were transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying illicit narcotics, with a total of eight males killed as a result of the strikes, three in the first vessel, two in the second, and three in the third, all suspected to have been members of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).

According to an exclusive report published by The Washington Post, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, along with other senior officials at the Pentagon, are preparing a major plan to present to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the coming day, which would see the downgrade of several of the U.S. Armed Force’s Unified Combatant Commands and a shift in the balance of power among its top generals, as part of a consolidation previously sought by Hegseth and other members of the Trump Administration.

If adopted, the plan would usher in some of the most significant changes at the military’s highest ranks in decades, which would include reducing in prominence the Headquarters of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), U.S. European Command (EUCOM), and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), by placing them under the control of a new organization known as U.S. International Command (INTERCOM). In addition, the plan also calls for realigning U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which oversee military operations throughout the Western Hemisphere, under a Combatant Command to be known as U.S. Americas Command (AMERICOM).

Traders on Polymarket do not appear confident that renewed hostilities between Thailand and Cambodia will cease by the end of the month, with only a 36% chance of a ceasefire between the two countries by December 31, 2025. This is despite President Trump claiming last week that the the Prime Minister of Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to an “immediate halt in the fighting,” a halt which has so far not materialized, as skirmishes continue along the Thai-Cambodian Border.

There is currently a mass shooter on the loose who killed two students this past weekend at Brown University, and where is FBI Director Kash Patel? Is he coordinating the manhunt in Rhode Island? No, he and his country singer girlfriend are talking about Israel and their relationship on a podcast hosted by Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

Footage published yesterday by the Royal Thai Air Force showing a wave of deep-precision-airstrikes carried out this past weekend by Thai F-16A/Bs, targeting Cambodian military sites and munitions depots across the Thmor Puok District, Banteay Meanchey Province of Northern Cambodia.

Vanity Fair today published a series of extremely unusual and candid interviews with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, that were recorded by author Chris Whipple throughout the first year of the second term of President Donald J. Trump, during which she stated Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vice-President JD Vance has “been a conspiracy theorist for a decade” and his conversion from Trump critic to ally was based not on principle but was “sort of political” because he was running for Senate. Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine” user and “an odd, odd duck,” whose actions were not always “rational” and left her “aghast.” Russell T. Vought, the Director of Management and Budget, is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” And Attorney General Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” in handling the Epstein Files.

Wiles said that she tried to get President Trump to end his “score settling” against political enemies after his first 90 days in office, but acknowledged that the administration’s still ongoing push for prosecutions has been fueled in part by the president’s desire for retribution against those he believes wronged him in the past, stating that he is not constantly thinking about retribution, but “when there’s an opportunity, he will go for it.” Additionally, Wiles acknowledged that Trump was not telling the truth when he accused former President Bill Clinton of visiting the private island of the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has released a statement following this morning’s scathing article on the Trump Administration by Vanity Fair, calling it a “disingenuously framed hit piece” on herself and the “finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”

Almost every member of the Trump Administration posted simultaneous statements this morning defending White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, following today’s article released by Vanity Fair.

Two U.S. Navy EA-18G “Growler” Electronic Warfare Aircraft, GRIZZLY1 and GRIZZLY2, both with Electromagnetic Attack Squadron 142 (VAQ-142), assigned to Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8) onboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), are currently operating over the Southern Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announces that he will be giving an Address to the Nation from the White House on Wednesday at 9:00 P.M. EST.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced tonight that he is ordering “A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS” going into, and out of, Venezuela, adding that the country is “completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America.”

The U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday that it would be designating Clan del Golfo, also known as Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, one of the largest and most prominent paramilitary and drug trafficking organizations in Colombia, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).   

Naveed Akram, 24, the surviving attacker in this past weekend’s ISIS-affiliated terrorist attack against an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney, has been charged by Australian authorities with 59 offenses, including displaying a symbol of a terrorist organization, placing explosives with the intent to cause harm, and several other counts related to terrorism, along with 15 counts of murder, according to the BBC.

A U.S. Air Force KC-135R “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tanker has departed from Las Américas International Airport in the Dominican Republic and is heading south over the Caribbean Sea towards Venezuela.

The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a vote of 77-20, sending it to the desk of President Donald J. Trump.