The Fire Next Door
The Fire Next Door

Author: Ted Galen Carpenter

Publisher: Cato Institute

Published: 2012-10-09

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1937184552

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Since the Mexican government initiated a military offensive against its country’s powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 50,000 people have perished and the drugs continue to flow. In The Fire Next Door, Ted Galen Carpenter boldly conveys the growing horror overtaking Mexico and makes the case that the only effective strategy for the United States is to abandon its failed drug prohibition policy, thus depriving drug cartels of financial resources.

Lockdown America
Lockdown America

Author: Christian Parenti

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781859843031

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Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico
Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico

Author: Beau Kilmer

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780833051073

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U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Mexico, focusing on gross revenues from export and distribution to wholesale markets near the southwestern U.S. border. The analysis described here is rooted in an earlier RAND Corporation study on marijuana legalization (Kilmer, Caulkins, Pacula, et al., 2010) and presents a method of estimating the revenues that international drug traffickers derive from U.S. sales that is transparent and, hence, auditable and replicable. We believe that this method can be iteratively improved by research over time, whereas existing methods that rely heavily on classified information have not been subject to review and have not shown much ongoing improvement. Five technical appendixes include additional information about the weight of a marijuana joint, THC content of sinsemilla and commercial-grade marijuana, marijuana prices, Mexican DTO revenues from drugs other than marijuana, and the availability of Mexican marijuana in the U.S.

Interim Review of ATF's Project Gunrunner
Interim Review of ATF's Project Gunrunner

Author: Michael D. Gulledge

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1437925979

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Mexican drug trafficking org. (cartels) are a pervasive organized crime threat to the U.S. The cartels use firearms trafficked from the U.S. in their lucrative drug trafficking operations. Project Gunrunner (PG) is the ATF¿s national initiative to reduce firearms trafficking to Mexico and assoc. violence along the Southwest border. ATF received $22 million to support and expand PG. In May 2009, an evaluation of PG began. Aspects of ATF¿s PG expansion plans will enhance its ability to combat firearms trafficking. However, some planned PG activities do not appear to represent the best use of resources to reduce firearms trafficking, and issues with new office locations, staffing structure, personnel with Spanish proficiency need to be addressed. Illustrations.

Commander's Handbook for Attack the Network (Color)
Commander's Handbook for Attack the Network (Color)

Author: Joint Warfighting Joint Warfighting Center

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781511612333

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This handbook is designed to assist joint task force commanders and staffs in planning, organizing, conducting, and assessing attack the network (AtN) activities in support of military operations. It describes the fundamental actions, analytical methodology (i.e., AtN framework) that forms the basis for identifying and exploiting threat network vulnerabilities, AtN roles and responsibilities of the joint task force staff, and contributions of civil organizations in the planning, execution and assessment of AtN activities.