Taking the War to the Mexican State, 4GW Style
Mexico’s equivalent to an acting FBI director was assassinated earlier on Thursday, most likely by Zetas or similarly skilled team of hitmen working for one of several of Mexico’s crime cartels currently being pressured by recently dispatched Mexican Army troops.
Reminiscient of attacks on the Italian state during the 1970’s and 1980’s by leftist Red Brigades and the Mafia, the drug cartels of Mexico are hobbled neither by antiquated Marxist ideology nor old-time, rustic, crime family traditions. They are adaptive, professional, transnational in outlook and far better equipped than state police forces on either side of the border. Mexico’s corrupt political elite by contrast, cannot be bothered to restrain their greed enough to properly pay, train and arm the very security forces that defend their primacy.
ADDENDUM:
Fester, the resident 4GW aficinado at the vibrant left of center blog, The NewsHoggers, greatly expands on the economic aspect of competing resource resource flows in this conflict. Nice job!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
The world is seeing an interesting development in the world. Violence is being conducted, not by states, but by entities. Muslim Terrorists, Drug Cartels, violent idealogues, etc.
Our view and strategies will be very slow to adapt to this change in warfare. These are entities without borders. We are still stuck in border warfare. What happens in Mexico will have spill over into the U.S. just like Islamic Terrorists violence has spill over in the Middle East.
Someone in our State Department and the Military needs to address this now so that we can have a strategy to deal with it instead of being reactionary as we have been historically.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
[…] of attacks on the Italian state during the 1970’s and 1980’s by leftist Red Brigades and Mafia, the drug cartels of Mexico are hobbled neither by antiquated Marxist ideology nor old-time, rustic, crime family traditions. […]
May 11th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
[…] V. ”Taking the War to the Mexican State, 4GW Style“, Zenpundit (9 May 2008) — Excellent analysis of ominous trends in our southern neighbor. […]