John P. Sullivan

		

				 
  	
		 		

			

	John P. Sullivan is a career police officer. He currently serves as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. He is also an Adjunct Researcher at the Vortex Foundation; Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism (CAST); and Senior Fellow at Small Wars Journal-El Centro. He is co-editor of Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter- Terrorism Network (Routledge, 2006) and Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses (Routledge, 2010). He is co- author of Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal-El Centro Anthology (iUniverse, 2011). His current research focus is the impact of transnational organized crime on sovereignty in Mexico and other countries.

			
		

		

	

	


  

  

  

      


  
  

    

    
  
  
      

      


  

    	  
  

                
Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 14: Narcocantante (Narco-singer) Assassinated  in Mission, Texas

  

  
  

                
 by John P. Sullivan and Robert Bunker 

  

  
  

                
Posted On May 1, 2013 01:11 PM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	Singer Jesus “Chuy” Quintanilla is the latest in a string of balladeers and musicians to be killed in Mexico’s drug war.  This time the killing occurred in Texas.


  

		  
  

                
Spillover/Narcobloqueos in Texas

  

  
  

                
 by John P. Sullivan 

  

  
  

                
Posted On April 1, 2013 01:10 PM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	A new Texas Department of Public Safety Threat Assessment report states that criminal cartels are operating in Texas and are the No. 1 threat to the Lone Star State. Narcobloqueos (narco-...


  

		  
  

                
The Benefits of a Paramilitary Force in Mexico

  

  
  

                
 by John P. Sullivan 

  

  
  

                
Posted On January 11, 2013 05:30 AM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto plans to create a Gendarmería Nacional, initially of 10,000 officers, to police the contested plazas and regions impacted...


  

	  





  

    	  
  

                
Criminal Insurgency: Narcocultura, Social Banditry, and Information Operations

  

  
  

                
 by John P. Sullivan 

  

  
  

                
Posted On December 3, 2012 05:30 AM | Comments(7)

  

  
  

                

	“The Family doesn’t kill for money; it doesn’t kill for women... only those who deserve to die, die... [T]his is divine justice.”


  

		  
  

                
Policy and Strategy in the New Drug War

  

  
  

                
 by John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus 

  

  
  

                
Posted On October 24, 2012 04:30 AM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	Two great minds on drugs... and strategy.


  

		  
  

                
In Memoriam: Graham Hall Turbiville, Jr.

  

  
  

                
 by John P. Sullivan 

  

  
  

                
Posted On June 5, 2012 09:18 PM | Comments(2)

  

  
  

                

	Small Wars Journal and El Centro is saddened to announce the death of Graham H. Turbiville Jr.