Narcos Over the Border: Gangs, Cartels and Mercenaries

ISBN-13: 9780415597258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 254 str.

Robert J. Bunker

Opis

This text examines the drug wars taking place in Mexico between competing gangs, cartels and mercenary factions. It also examines the narco-violence and terrorism increasingly crossing the border into the United States and its interrelationship with domestic prison and street gangs.

Spis treści

Foreword: a view from the Borderlands  Alberto M. Melis  1. Strategic threat: narcos and narcotics overview  Robert J. Bunker  Part 1: Organization and Technology Use  2. Cartel evolution revisited: third phase cartel potentials and alternative futures in Mexico  Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan  3. Los Zetas: operational assessment  Lisa J. Campbell  4. Surenos gangs and Mexican cartel use of social networking sites  Sarah Womer and Robert J. Bunker  Part 2: Silver or Lead?  5. Corruption of politicians, law enforcement, and the judiciary in Mexico and complicity across the border  Luz E. Nagle  6. Firefights, raids, and assassinations: tactical forms of cartel violence and their underpinnings  Graham H. Turbiville, Jr.  7. Torture, beheadings, and narcocultos  Pamela L. Bunker, Lisa J. Campbell and Robert J. Bunker  Part 3: Response Strategies  8. Counter-supply and counter-violence approaches to narcotics trafficking  John P. Sullivan  9. Counter-demand approaches to narcotics trafficking  Robert J. Bunker and Matt Begert  10. Afterword: criminal violence in Mexico – a dissenting analysis  Paul Rexton Kan and Phil Williams

O autorze

Robert J. Bunker is CEO of the Counter-OPFOR Corporation, USA. He is an applied theorist focusing on non-state opposing force (OPFOR) research, analysis, and defeat strategies and Epochal Warfare studies. He was the 2006-2007 Futurist in Residence (FIR), FBI Academy, Quantico, VA and has counter-terrorism and red teaming experience. His publications include Non-State Threats and Future Wars; Networks, Terrorism and Global Insurgency; and Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers (all published by Routledge).