Op-ed—Cuba's drone crisis: Iranian technology may pose security threat in Miami's backyard

Op-ed by Gov. Jeb Bush and Amb. Mark D. Wallace:

In October 1962, Americans learned a sobering lesson about geography and national security. The Soviet Union’s placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba brought a strategic threat to within 90 miles of American shores. For thirteen days, the world confronted the significant possibility of nuclear catastrophe. The Cuban Missile Crisis remains one of the Cold War’s defining moments because it proved that geography is decisive — even for a country often assumed to be shielded by two oceans.

Today, Cuba could once again serve as a platform for a similar strategic threat: this time not in the form of missiles, but Iranian drones. Such systems could surveil American military installations, monitor maritime activity in the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Straits, test U.S. defenses and provide the Islamic Republic of Iran with an intelligence-gathering presence just off the coast of the United States...

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