{"id":3686,"date":"2011-01-21T04:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T04:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2011-01-21T04:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T04:36:29","slug":"narcos-over-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3686","title":{"rendered":"Narcos Over the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Narcos Over the Border: Gangs, Cartels and Mercenaries<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by Dr. Robert J. Bunker (Ed.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just received a review copy courtesy of Dr. Bunker and James Driscoll<\/strong> of Taylor & Francis<\/a>\u00a0– could not have arrived at a better time given several research projects in which I am engaged.<\/p>\n

The 237 page, heavily footnoted,\u00a0book is organized into three sections: Organization and Technology Use<\/em> by the narcos networks, Silver or Lead<\/em> on their carrot and stick infiltration\/intimidation of civil society and the state apparatus, and Response Strategies<\/em> for the opponents of the cartels. Bunker’s co-authors Matt Begert, Pamela Bunker, Lisa Campbell, Paul Kan, Alberto Melis, Luz Nagle, John Sullivan, Graham Turbiville, Jr., Phil Wiliams<\/strong> and Sarah Womer<\/strong> bring an array of critical perspectives to the table from academia, law enforcement, intelligence, defense and security fields as researchers and practitioners.<\/p>\n

Looks good – will get a full review here at a later date, but a work that will\u00a0definitely of interest to those readers focusing on national security, COIN<\/strong>, 4GW<\/strong>, irregular or Hybrid war<\/strong>, terrorism, transnational organized crime and black globalization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Narcos Over the Border: Gangs, Cartels and Mercenaries\u00a0by Dr. Robert J. Bunker (Ed.) Just received a review copy courtesy of Dr. Bunker and James Driscoll of Taylor & Francis\u00a0– could not have arrived at a better time given several research projects in which I am engaged. The 237 page, heavily footnoted,\u00a0book is organized into three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,310,262,216,361,46,420,457,133,20,151,126,309,471,132,574,311,425,78,199,336,40,573,39,270,372,380,520,66,306,131,268,558,10,605,211,13,375,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-3-gen-gangs","category-4gw","category-academia","category-america","category-analytic","category-authors","category-black-globalization","category-book","category-coin","category-conspiracy","category-counterinsurgency","category-criminals","category-cultural-intelligence","category-dystopia","category-failed-state","category-gangs","category-government","category-ideas","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-mercenary","category-mexico","category-military","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-organizations","category-osint","category-primary-loyalties","category-robert-j-bunker","category-security","category-social-networks","category-social-science","category-state-failure","category-tactics","category-terrorism","category-theory","category-transnational-criminal-organization","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","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=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}