Narcos Over the Border

Robert J. Bunker is CEO of the Counter-OPFOR Corporation, USA. He is an applied theorist focusing on non-state opposing force (OPFOR) research, analysis, and defeat strategies and Epochal Warfare studies. He was the 2006-2007 Futurist in Residence (FIR), FBI Academy, Quantico, VA and has counter-terrorism and red teaming experience. His publications include Non-State Threats and Future Wars; Networks, Terrorism and Global Insurgency; and Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers (all published by Routledge).

• Foreword: a view from the Borderlands Alberto M. Melis 1. Strategic threat: narcos and narcotics overview Robert J. Bunker Part 1: Organization and Technology Use 2. Cartel evolution revisited: third phase cartel potentials and alternative futures in Mexico Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan 3. Los Zetas: operational assessment Lisa J. Campbell 4. Surenos gangs and Mexican cartel use of social networking sites Sarah Womer and Robert J. Bunker Part 2: Silver or Lead? 5. Corruption of politicians, law enforcement, and the judiciary in Mexico and complicity across the border Luz E. Nagle 6. Firefights, raids, and assassinations: tactical forms of cartel violence and their underpinnings Graham H. Turbiville, Jr. 7. Torture, beheadings, and narcocultos Pamela L. Bunker, Lisa J. Campbell and Robert J. Bunker Part 3: Response Strategies 8. Counter-supply and counter-violence approaches to narcotics trafficking John P. Sullivan 9. Counter-demand approaches to narcotics trafficking Robert J. Bunker and Matt Begert 10. Afterword: criminal violence in Mexico – a dissenting analysis Paul Rexton Kan and Phil Williams

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