JIATF S is in the business of identifying drug routes and keeping their various interagency stakeholders happy with bureaucratic churn. Very little of their work actually involves intercepting drugs. Take a look at their record of vessels and a/c detected vs. intercepted over the past few years, and you will be shocked. Of course, some of the blame can be placed on the lack of assets available to them, but a large part goes to the ridiculous ROE we place on the forces doing the interceptions. The war on drugs is a joke. As long as we treat these vessels as a law enforcement problem rather than a threat to national security, the joke will endure.