Over several years and administrations, the U.S. government's drug interdiction strategy has evolved to an approach that emphasizes the selective, intelligence-cued, and carefully planned employment of a constrained number of interdiction assets in the transit zones (e.g. the Caribbean air and sea routes) leading to the continental United States. Given their limited resources, the three Joint Interagency Task Forces (JIATF) East, South, and West, established in 1994 would greatly benefit from the application of Computer Generated Force (CGF) technology to the training and operational tasks implicit in their interdiction mission. In the training arena, the JIATFs are responsible .for integrating law enforcement and military personnel of varied expertise and experience into cohesive command center teams capable of smooth, effective action to counter detected air and maritime trafficking events. Operationally, the JIATFs continually face cost-benefit decisions in determining the optimal force laydown, near term and long range, to counter drug trafficking trends. Moreover, with reliable pre-event intelligence, the JIATFs conduct detailed planning and gaming to ensure that limited assets are most effectively arrayed against anticipated specific events. Adapting the CGF capability to replicate air and maritime interdiction operations for training, mission rehearsal and after action analysis purposes could pay a substantial dividend in this critical national and international security issue.
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