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This book addresses the issues surrounding border tensions between the USA and Mexican drug cartels. It focuses on the criminal insurgencies being waged by the gangs and cartels.The book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies.

This new book brings together leading terrorism scholars and defence professionals to discuss the impact of networks on conflict and war. Post-modern terrorism and topics of global insurgency are also comprehensively covered. The text is divided into four sections to cover the key areas: introductory/overview, theory, terrorism and global insurgency, Al Qaeda focus, and networks. Eminent contributors include John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, B...

Competition in Order and Progress examines the competition in statemaking between criminal enterprises (gangs, militias, and criminal armed groups) and the state. The title builds from Brazil's motto Ordem e Progresso to capture the dynamics of state transition in Brazil's favelas, prisons, and beyond.

This book is an eye-opener that may be an appalling representation of current events in Mexico, but it is based on factual reports of the strength, manner, and frequency of the cartel violence that occurs every day in Mexico. ... As long as the cartels continue to keep their wars inside Mexico and as long as Mexico does not ask for US help, the status quo will continue, and we will see this level and scope of violence incrementally increase in...

Dr. Robert J. Bunker is Director of Research & Analysis, C/O Futures, LLC and is a Senior Fellow with Small Wars Journal-El Centro.Dr. John P. Sullivan served as a Lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and is a Senior Fellow with Small Wars Journal-El Centro.

The Terrorism Futures: Evolving Technology and TTPs Use pocketbook is derived from a series of nine essays written by the author between December 2014 and June 2017 for TRENDS Research & Advisory, Abu Dhabi, UAE. With subsequent organizational and website changes at TRENDS a majority of these essays are no longer accessible via the present iteration of the entity's website. In order to preserve this collection of forward-thinking counterterror...

The Coronavirus pandemic is fueling conflict and fostering extremism while concurrently empowering gangs, cartels, and mafias in their quest for power and profit. In COVID-19, Gangs, and Conflict, Editors John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker bring together a curated collection of both new and previously published material to explore the trends and potentials of the global pandemic emergency. Topics include an exploration of proto-statemaking ...

The intent behind this book was to bring together a team of defence and national security scholars and real-world military and law enforcement operators to focus on the topic of "Non-State Threats and Future Wars." The book is divided into four main sections: The first concerns theory. The second section concerns non-state threats and case studies, providing an overview of non-state threats ranging from organized crime networks to cartels, gan...

The timing of Dr. Robert J. Bunker's new SWJ pocket book is apropos given the increasing intransigence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in both its domestic 'police state' security policies and foreign 'expansionistic' economic and military activities. This authoritarian regime-bereft of its former Marxist and Maoist ideologies except in name only-under the iron fisted leadership of 'president for life' Xi Jinping is increasingly in the ne...

Rising levels of inequality, both internationally and domestically, represent a societal as well as, increasingly, a national security concern. A strong and robust middle class has long been considered an integral part of American society, required for both the functioning of its industrialized economy and armor and mechanized-infantry based armies as well as the stability of its liberal-democratic governmental system. This reality now seems i...

Plutocratic insurgency represents an emerging form of insurgency not seen since the late 19th century Gilded Age. It is being conducted by high net worth globalized elites allowing them to remove themselves from public spaces and obligations-including taxation-and to maximize their ability to generate profits transnationally. It utilizes 'lawyers & lobbyists' and corruption, rather than armed struggle-though mercenaries may be employed-to crea...

Blood Sacrifices contributors: . Dawn Perlmutter, Ph.D. . Robert J. Bunker, Ph.D. . Marc W.D. Tyrrell, Ph.D. . Paul Rexton Kan, Ph.D. . Lt.Col. Lisa J. Campbell, B.A., SME Beheadings . Tony M. Kail, B.A., SME Esoteric Religions . Pamela Ligouri Bunker, M.Litt., M.A. . Charles Cameron, B.A., SME Religious Violence . SA Andrew Bringuel, II, M.A., SME Criminal Extremism . Jo?se de Arimate?ia da Cruz, Ph.D. . Mark Safranski, M.A., M.Ed. . Alma Kes...

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The fielding of armed robotic systems--droids and drones that are teleoperated, semi-autonomous, and even autonomous--has been slowly but surely transitioning from pure science fiction into military reality on the battlefields of the early 21st century. These systems currently have no artificial intelligence (AI) whatsoever and, in most cases, are simply operated by soldiers (and on occasion terrorists and insurgents) utilizing hardline cables...

This important monograph focuses on the emergence of armed robotic systems on the early 21st- century battlefield and the new strategic realities that their fielding may entail. It utilizes a little known-yet decades old-weapons systems life cycle analytical approach, to place these warfighting technologies in a larger strategic context. This is provided by means of case studies focusing on the developmental progression of the knight from the ...

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Concerns over the changing nature of gangs and cartels and their relationships to states in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has resulted in the emergence of a scholarly body of work focused on their national security threat potentials. This body of work represents an alternative to traditional gang and organised crime research.

This text examines the drug wars taking place in Mexico between competing gangs, cartels and mercenary factions. It also examines the narco-violence and terrorism increasingly crossing the border into the United States and its interrelationship with domestic prison and street gangs.