The Real "Long War": The Illicit Drug Trade and the Role of the Military

by Geoffrey Till, U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute

As the Iraq and Afghanistan wars wind down, the U.S. military, like most other Western militaries, is enveloped in campaigns of reappraisal about what its role should be for the next few decades. The U.S. Navy and Air Force are developing the concepts of the Air-Sea Battle and Offshore Control, which are aimed essentially at countering the anti-access capabilities of nonstate, but especially state, adversaries. Since the unspoken focus of these concepts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505362318
• ISBN13: 9781505362312
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"