Narcos Over the Border - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415597250 ISBN 13: 9780415597258

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

The book takes a hard hitting look at the drug wars taking place in Mexico between competing gangs, cartels, and mercenary factions; their insurgency against the Mexican state; the narco-violence and terrorism that is increasingly coming over the border into the United States, and its interrelationship with domestic prison and street gangs. Analysis and response strategies are provided by leading writers on 3GEN gang theory, counterterrorism, transnational organized crime, and homeland security.

Narcos Over the Border is divided into three sections: narco-opposing force (NARCO OPFOR) organization and technology use; patterns of violence and corruption and the illicit economy; and United States response strategies. The work also includes short introductory essays, a strategic threat overview, an afterword and selected references. Specific topics covered include: advanced weaponry, internet use, kidnappings and assassinations, torture, beheadings, and occultism, cartel and gang evolutionary patterns, drug trafficking, street taxation, corruption, and border firefights.

This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies.

About this title

About the Author:

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).

Review:

"I just finished my review copy of Narcos Over the Border. It is one of the more disturbing academic works recently published in the national security field, not excluding even those monographs dealing with Islamist terrorism and Pakistan. If the authors of this granular examination of Mexico's immense problems with warring narco-cartels, mercenary assassins, systemic corruption, 3rd generation gangs and emerging "Narcocultas"of Santa Muerte are correct - and I suspect they are - Mexico's creeping path toward state failure represents a threat to American national security of the first order." Mark Safranski, zenpundit.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415597250
• ISBN 13: 9780415597258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Bunker Robert J.