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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/drug-lord/the-staggering-death-toll-of-mexicos-drug-war/

The Staggering Death Toll of Mexico’s Drug War



Sort of puts it in...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57612705/mexican-vigilantes-battling-cartel-take-over-another-town/

Mexican vigilantes, battling cartel, take over another town





Another case where a...

The Mexicans are wisely considering a new approach to address the threat from the Cartels, but that is making some of our so called experts nervous. The fact remains that the current strategy is not...

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/04/07/zetas-and-ms-13-join-forces-in-guatemala/



Here is a match made in hell, and it is sounding too much like the terrorist training camps in...

http://www.stanford.edu/group/progressive/cgi-bin/?p=521



http://www.economywatch.com/in-the-news/even-mexicos-drug-cartels-are-affected-by-worst-drought-in-years.01-02.html

Global Warming...

Posted by Misifus,



Bringing the thread back to the article originally posted, and Misifus's challenge to the author's research. The articles below actually support the article's claim, and as...

Agreed, it must be that time of the year when everyone is over sensitive. :D::o

We still have JUSMAGs, we used to have JUSMAAGs. We have JUSMAGs in Thailand, Philippines and I believe we still have one in Korea. Where we have a smaller presence the security assistance office is...

While there may be minor disagreements on the number of oil men in Iran, the actual point was there were U.S. business living in Iran in the late 70s and some of them were oil men. They all had...

In this case, that is what I meant, but there were those on the ground throughout the years that kept saying we were winning, and that we had the right strategy. Some analysts back in the States who...

You definitely read it differently than I did, he specifically wrote there is an increasing risk of narco-refugees. He didn't conflate it with the normal illegal immigration that has been happening...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15702285

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44166524/ns/world_news-americas/



Nothing new here, but still interesting to me for the following reasons.

It addresses that the fact that killing and capturing...

Slap,

Thanks, excellent video, very informative. Interesting theory (at least the way I interpreted it) that the North America Trade Agreement undermined the traditional requirement, putting...

Sorry, I only caught the last part of an interview on CNN with a Mexican official, so I didn't catch his name or position.

He went on and on about how more tourists came to Mexico in 2008, than...

Ken,

While the label operational design may be somewhat new, but I am not so sure that the concept is. I attempted to research historic irregular warfare events we were involved in prior to...

1258Dave, I agree, that was an excellent post. Context is critical, and your short history lesson valuable. We have this odd habit of attempting to narrow the scope of the problem to drugs, gangs,...

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

Top five countries we import crude oil from. The numbers below represent 1,000 barrels a...

Merv,

In today's world it is easy for numerous groups with different agendas to network and support each other where there are common points of interest, or a profit to be made. Unfortunately...

Robb posted a comment about this attack on his website today. This is a very traditional insurgent attack, and behold, they're not Islamists, but good ole leftists. I have no idea what the return...

I recall there was a little disagreement about Slapout's original post suggesting that the conflict on our southern was the next small war, but I think events (not just the ones mentioned here) are...

Slapout, what ya saying, dig into a defensive position and hope for the best? We can't afford deploying that type of man power for an extended period of time, nor will a static defense work. Assumng...

The situation on the border has been serious for years, so to define it as the next small war is probably a bit of a reach; however, the fact that persons of interest are using Mexican cartels to...