Whack-a-mole Drug War: U.S. Drug War Turns to Transnational Combat

From the CIP TransBorder Project, a critique of the recently issued Strategy to Combat Transnational Crime. 

Border Lines: U.S. Drug War Turns to Transnational Combat: "A review of the White House’s new strategy to combat transnational organized crime (TOC) raises questions about its factual and conceptual foundations.

Questions also need to be asked about the implications of the strategy for domestic and foreign security operations. ...

In the strategy statement, the White House asserts that since 1995 transnational organized crime “has expanded dramatically in size, scope, and influence and that it poses a significant threat to national and international security.”

But how do we know this to be true? The White House doesn’t bother in this strategy statement or anywhere else to back this assertion about the causal link between globalization and transnational crime with statistics or other supporting documentation."