Forces of Habit: Global SOF's Role in Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking

[摘要] Illicit drug trafficking is a prominent national security issue in a globalizing world. Drug trafficking intersects with major security issues such as rogue and narco-states, weak and failing states, insurgencies and terrorism, transnational organized crime and protracted intrastate conflicts. These are the same issues that sets the operational environment for the deployment of SOF. Rather than treating drug trafficking as a singular and separate security issue, global SOF counternarcotics operations must adapt previous approaches to new realities.

[学科分类] 建筑学

[关键词] Asymmetric warfare;Irregular warfare;Narcotics trafficking;Special operations forces