1st Edition
Narcos Over the Border Gangs, Cartels and Mercenaries
Editor’s Note
Preface: The Border War - David D. Danelo (Author—The Border: Exploring the US-Mexico Divide; Blood Stripes: The Grunt’s View of the War in Iraq)
Foreword: A View From the Trenches - Alberto M. Melis (Chief of Police Douglas, AZ & FWG Member for FBI/PFI)
1. Strategic Threat: Narcos and Narcotics Overview - Robert J. Bunker
Part I: Organization and Technology Use
2. Cartel Evolution Revisited - Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan (LA Sheriffs, CT / Gang researcher / author)
3. Gang, Cartel, and Mercenary Organization and Linkages - John P. Sullivan
4. Los Zetas an Operational Assessment - Lisa J. Campbell (Nat Guard Intell, CT writer)
5. Use of Advanced Weaponry and Technology - David A. Kuhn (Dade County LE Support, CT writer, expert in police
special operations / stand off weapons / IEDs)
6. Use of the Internet and World Wide Web - Sarah Womer (US Army Intell Support / Expert on Internet use by Terrorists), Gus Frias (LACOE Safe Schools, worked with DEA OCONUS / Gang knowledge / finishing PHD), and Robert J. Bunker
Part II: Silver or Lead?
7. Corruption of Politicians, Judges, Law Enforcement, and Military - Luz Nagel (Prof. of Law, Stetson Univ / Colombian Cartel Experience)
8. The Illicit Economy: Narcotics, Taxation, and Extortion - Robert J. Bunker
9. Firefights, Raids, Kidnappings, and Assassinations - Graham H. Turbiville (FMSO founder / globally recognized scholar on LIC / Ter. / PhD)
10. Torture, Beheading, and Occultism - Pamela L. Bunker, Lisa J. Campbell (Cult researcher, author, grad degree) and Robert J. Bunker
Part III: Response Strategies
11. Traditional Domestic Response Approaches - John P. Sullivan
12. Non-Traditional Domestic Response Approaches - Robert J. Bunker and Matt Begert (Marine LTCOL, Ret, NLECTC-West, writer,
terrorist cell leader, SF background, etc)
Afterword: Why Mexico is Not Colombia - Phil Williams (well known in field of Transnational crime studies / PhD) and Paul R. Kan (US Army SSI Scholar / PhD.)
Selected References
Biography
Robert J. Bunker is CEO of the Counter-OPFOR Corporation, USA. He is an applied theorist focusing on non-state opposing force (OPFOR) research, analysis, and defeat strategies and Epochal Warfare studies. He was the 2006-2007 Futurist in Residence (FIR), FBI Academy, Quantico, VA and has counter-terrorism and red teaming experience. His publications include Non-State Threats and Future Wars; Networks, Terrorism and Global Insurgency; and Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers (all published by Routledge).
