Narcos Copycat Global Guerrilla Playbook

September 8th, 2010 by zen

The Cartels are following in the footsteps of Nigerian delta rebels and Iraqi insurgents.

Though to my mind, this attack was more of a demonstration than a determination to bring the state to it’s knees. Narco business would be impinged by a true state collapse in Mexico which would activate the USG in unhelpful ways. The cartels would rather someone else mind the store while they get on with making money unhindered.

John’s next book should just be titled “See, I told you so”

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  1. slapout9:

    September 8th, 2010 at 4:00 am

    Zen, couldn’t agree more John Robb is way ahead of the curve.

  2. zen:

    September 8th, 2010 at 1:41 pm

    Yep, yep, yep. Hard to get folks with titles to listen though.

  3. Mercutio:

    September 8th, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    The guys with titles will never listen.

    The objective should be essentially to displace them as, for example, the French Impressionists ultimately displaced the Academicians.

  4. Russ Greene:

    September 9th, 2010 at 1:08 am

    Sounds like coercion to me.

  5. zen:

    September 9th, 2010 at 2:44 am

    "to displace them as, for example, the French Impressionists ultimately displaced the Academicians."
    .
    That made me chuckle. Nice. An analogy worthy of Joseph Fouche.