Whack-a-mole Drug War: U.S. Widens Its Role in Battle Against Mexico’s Drug Cartels

A look into the growing"on the ground" military and intelligence involvement in Mexico that is part of the Obama administration's new Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime," the new goivernment-speak for the war on drugs.

U.S. Widens Its Role in Battle Against Mexico’s Drug Cartels - NYTimes.com: "The United States is expanding its role in Mexico’s bloody fight against drug trafficking organizations, sending new C.I.A. operatives and retired military personnel to the country and considering plans to deploy private security contractors in hopes of turning around a multibillion-dollar effort that so far has shown few results.

In recent weeks, small numbers of C.I.A. operatives and American civilian military employees have been posted at a Mexican military base, where, for the first time, security officials from both countries work side by side in collecting information about drug cartels and helping plan operations. Officials are also looking into embedding a team of American contractors inside a specially vetted Mexican counternarcotics police unit."