Regional Issues: Mexico, South and Central America
Illicit trafficking networks can have devastating impacts on source, transit, and user states.
What Drives Illicit Trafficking Networks
Successful illicit trafficking networks in source and transit areas are typically driven by a combination of structural conditions, such as state complicity or selective enforcement, economic incentives like arbitrage opportunities, and localized social dynamics including community participation
Challenges in Combating Cybercrime
Perhaps the term “cybercrime” itself carries a somewhat misleading implication, as it is often immediately associated with purely digital offenses such as identity theft or ransomware attacks.
Human Trafficking as a Multidimensional Threat
Even when set aside from its profound human rights implications, human trafficking represents a significant economic threat due to its scale and systemic impact.
Sovereignty and Transnational Crime
State sovereignty can be understood, at its core, as the ability of a state to define and maintain authority within its boundaries.
Why Transnational Crime Is Different in the Americas
What, if anything is unique about the transnational crime and illicit goods issues policy makers face in regard to Central and South America?
Truth in the Face of Uncertainty
Intelligence analysts and their customers should not treat intelligence products as truth or infallible pronouncements.
Strategic Communication versus Public Diplomacy
The terms strategic communication and public diplomacy are widely used across the U.S. interagency, particularly within the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the National Security Council.
Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet operation ANADYR was a sophisticated, doctrine-driven, centralized, and tightly enforced denial and deception effort conducted simultaneously at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels.
Deception in WWI
One of the simplest yet most effective WWI deception examples described by Rankin (2009) is the British use of realistic camouflage disguised as natural terrain, most notably fake trees, to conceal artillery observation posts. Artist Solomon J.
