{"id":30764,"date":"2014-01-07T03:55:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30764"},"modified":"2014-01-07T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T04:00:22","slug":"narco-cartels-as-mbas-doing-4gw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30764","title":{"rendered":"Narco-cartels as MBAs Doing 4GW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[by <strong>Mark Safranski<\/strong>, a.k.a. &#8220;<strong>zen<\/strong>&#8220;]<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/rodrigo_canales_the_deadly_genius_of_drug_cartels.html\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yale<\/strong> organizational behaviorist\u00a0<strong>Rodrigo<\/strong> <strong>Canales<\/strong> has an interesting talk on the<a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/art\/criminal-insurgency-narcocultura-social-banditry-and-information-operations\"> <strong>Narco-insurgency<\/strong><\/a> in <strong>Mexico<\/strong> ( which he correctly sees as having been as lethal as <strong>Syria&#8217;s<\/strong> civil war). While this won&#8217;t be news to close students of Mexico&#8217;s cartel wars, Canales explains how<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Zetas\">Los Zeta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Familia_Michoacana\">La Familia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insightcrime.org\/news-analysis\/are-the-knights-templar-the-vanguard-of-a-narco-insrugency-in-mexico\">Knights Templar<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insightcrime.org\/groups-mexico\/sinaloa-cartel-sinaloa\">Sinaloa<\/a><\/strong> cartel violence is neither random nor strictly criminal on criminal \u00a0violence but is used as part of organizational strategies to create distinctive &#8220;franchise brands&#8221;, amplify political messaging, \u00a0reinforce effects of social service investment in the communities they control and maximize market efficiency of narcotics sales and other contraband. <strong>COIN, 4GW<\/strong> and<strong> irregular warfare<\/strong> folks will all see familiar elements in Canales management theory driven perspective.<\/p>\n<p>A useful short tutorial considering the cartels are <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/news\/politics-elections\/2013\/04\/01\/ap-impact-cartels-dispatch-agents-deep-inside-us-n1554224\">operating<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagomag.com\/Chicago-Magazine\/October-2013\/Sinaloa-Cartel\/\">inside<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jul\/7\/ruthless-mexican-drug-cartel-recruiting-in-the-us\/?page=all\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borderlandbeat.com\/2013\/05\/mapping-incredible-spread-of-mexican.html\">United States<\/a> and their hyper-violent tactics are eventually going to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. &#8220;zen&#8220;] &nbsp; Yale organizational behaviorist\u00a0Rodrigo Canales has an interesting talk on the Narco-insurgency in Mexico ( which he correctly sees as having been as lethal as Syria&#8217;s civil war). While this won&#8217;t be news to close students of Mexico&#8217;s cartel wars, Canales explains how\u00a0Los Zeta, La Familia, Knights Templar and Sinaloa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,310,262,728,20,126,760,309,132,311,425,199,583,790,573,39,823,270,372,380,10,127,605,211,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-3-gen-gangs","category-4gw","category-adaptability","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-counterterrorism","category-criminals","category-dystopia","category-gangs","category-government","category-insurgency","category-latin-america","category-law-enforcement","category-mexico","category-military","category-narcoterror","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-organizations","category-state-failure","category-strategy","category-tactics","category-terrorism","category-theory","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30769,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions\/30769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}