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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 06/05/2021 - 3:23pm | 0 comments
An interview with the author, Gayle Lemmon, and General (Ret.) Joseph Votel, former CENTCOM and SOCOM commander
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 06/02/2021 - 4:06pm | 0 comments
Small Wars Journal-El Centro Senior Fellows Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan along with analyst David A. Kuhn, and SWJ-El Centro Associate Alma Kehavarz look at the evolving use of explosives in Mexico's criminal insurgencies and crime wars in a new article at Counter-IED Report.
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 05/29/2021 - 11:42pm | 0 comments
This infographic expands upon the discussion of hybrid threats found in Paulina Rios Maya's paper "The Narco Hybrid-Threat" at Small Wars Journal. That paper posited that the rapid development of tactics used by Mexican narco-cartels has allowed these organisations to build a solid structure of influence. A structure that has amplified their efforts to coerce the state while increasing their capacity to dislocate social life and erode state institutions. That paper concluded that criminal cartel's posed hybridd threats.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 05/24/2021 - 8:54pm | 0 comments
An interview with Admiral (Retired) James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman