Co-opted Drug Cartels Are Enemy Hybrid Warfare Operations
Commentary
In February of this year, 21 U.S. states asked the Biden administration to officially label Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations. The states’ attorneys general making the request made this argument: designating Mexican criminal cartels as FTOs, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, allows the United States to use more than that federal police, state police, and judicial power to confront them. As FTOs, federal military and intelligence assets enter the fray.
The AGs said that such destructive “forces just across our southwestern land border, and the Mexican government’s inability to control them, pose a threat to our national security far greater than a typical drug-trafficking enterprise …”…