Plan Colombia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plan Colombia write by Gearóid Ó Loingsigh. This book was released on 2001. Plan Colombia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Losing War
The Losing War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Losing War write by Jonathan D. Rosen. This book was released on 2014-01-01. The Losing War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.
A Critique of Plan Colombia
A Critique of Plan Colombia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Critique of Plan Colombia write by . This book was released on 2005. A Critique of Plan Colombia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A strong and democratic Colombia is vitally important to U.S. national security. Colombia's future, however, remains in doubt. Colombia has been involved in a civil war since the 1960s with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN). The United Self-Defense Forces (AUC), a third group that operates outside of the law in Colombia, is opposed to the FARC and ELN. All three organizations turned to the drug trade in the 1990s to fund their movements, and have since strayed from their founding ideologies. They have become criminal organizations that export cocaine and heroin to the United States and threaten to destabilize Latin America. In 1999, the Government of Colombia (GOC) developed Plan Colombia to revitalize its economy; bring an end to the FARC, ELN, and AUC; and battle the drug trade. The U.S. Government has diplomatically and militarily supported the Plan since its inception and has provided billions of dollars in aid to the GOC. More can be done, however, on the military front. The U.S. military was initially only permitted to train the Colombian military in counter-narcotics operations against the FARC, ELN, and AUC; however, Congress subsequently granted the U.S. military authority to also train the Colombians in counterinsurgency operations. U.S. military personnel are still not authorized to accompany their Colombian colleagues on operations. This is a mistake. This tactic worked for the U.S. military in El Salvador in the 1980s and would provide the U.S. military in Colombia with the flexibility to ensure that the Colombian military is operating correctly and appropriately in the field.
U.S. Support of Plan Colombia
U.S. Support of Plan Colombia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. Support of Plan Colombia write by Stephen E. Flynn. This book was released on 2001. U.S. Support of Plan Colombia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author argues that the U.S. emphasis on drug control in its support of Plan Colombia is misguided and akin to prescribing an antibiotic regime to combat a disease not caused by bacteria or similar micro-organisms. The illegal drug industry in Colombia is not the cause of that country s fragile socio-political system, but a symptom of and a contributor to the fragility of the Colombian state. Continuing the analogy, Flynn argues that U.S. and Colombian emphasis on combating illicit drug cultivation and trafficking leads to several undesirable side effects.
Plan Colombia
Plan Colombia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plan Colombia write by Luz E. Nagle. This book was released on 2002-12-01. Plan Colombia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As American foreign policy and military asset management expand beyond the so-called "Drug War" in Colombia, Professor Luz Nagle analyzes that country's problems and makes recommendations regarding what it will take to achieve stated U.S. and Colombian objectives in that crisis situation. She also examines the concomitant issue of "spillover" from the Colombian crisis into the rest of the Latin American region. The results and recommendations of this analysis go well beyond prescribing a simple military solution to the complex political-economic-social-moral-security issues of this 50 year-old war. In these terms, it becomes clear that the military in general and the U.S. Army in particular must change in order to operate more effectively in the full spectrum of current and future conflict.
