Beyond the Border: Mexico's Internal Conflict Is the United States' Problem.

摘要

This monograph addresses the importance of strategic guidance as it relates to operational planning for synchronized tactical actions. Mexico's drug war offers an interesting case study for furthering understanding of nontraditional forms of war, such as drug-related war, and how Mexico's internal conflict affects its regional neighbors as well as the international community. The ultimate aim of the paper is to establish a unified regional approach that will disrupt the Mexican drug trafficking organizations and reduce violence to an acceptable and controllable level. Accomplishing this requires the unified efforts of all elements of national power from the United States Government, the Mexican Government, and other regional governments through an operational approach that focuses efforts and unifies goals. The current U.S. and Mexican strategies can contain drug trafficking organizations on a limited basis, but they fail to fix the problem for the long-term because of their limited approach. The monograph reveals how the employment of a unified governmental approach can enhance the United States' and Mexico's current security strategy by disrupting the actions of the Mexican drug trafficking organizations.