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August 5, 2024

Mexico
Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels

Violence continues to rage more than a decade after the Mexican government launched a war against drug cartels.

A soldier stands guard as over 850 kilos of drugs are burned in Monterrey, Mexico.
Backgrounder by CFR.org Editors

May 18, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Yemen and Drone Wars

Iona Craig, "Toll Climbs in Yemen’s Fight Against al-Qaeda," USA Today, May 18, 2012. Julian E. Barnes, "U.S. Rethinks Secrecy on Drone Program," Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2012. The policy chang…

Yemen protester
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

November 4, 2011

Obama Limits CIA Drone Strikes in Pakistan

Boys walk through the rubble of destroyed homes in Buner, Pakistan on September 14, 2009. The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article this morning that reports: “The Central Intelligence Agency…

Boys walk through the rubble of destroyed homes in Buner, Pakistan on September 14, 2009.
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

June 4, 2013

Enhancing the Obama Administration’s Drone Strikes Transparency

Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama gave a wide-ranging speech on U.S. counterterrorism policies. The result has been significant confusion regarding targeted killings, because what was reported in…

Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

April 26, 2013

United States
Sea Power in the Pacific, Drones in Lebanon, and America’s “Dirty Wars”

David C. Gompert, “Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific,” Rand Corportation, to be published June 3, 2013,  pp. 160-162. If we are indeed in for a change in the basic premise of s…

navysandiego
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action