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

Author(s) -

Paul Rexton Kan

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of strategic security

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.156

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 1944-0472

pISSN - 1944-0464

DOI - 10.5038/1944-0472.7.2.3

Subject(s) - drug trafficking , terrorism , illicit drug , software deployment , political science , computer security , international security , organised crime , national security , criminology , political economy , public administration , drug , law , engineering , sociology , computer science , biology , software engineering , pharmacology

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.\u

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