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Mexico Cartel Drops Aerial Leaflets Against Gov't - AP via The Seattle Times. BLUF:    

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #12: Forensics of Recovered Weapons from Piedras Negras Tactical Engagement Between Los Zetas and GATE (Grupo de Armas y Tácticas Especiales).

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #11A - MG 34 Machine Guns in Mexico : The Guatemalan Connection.

In the first of several installments, we take a look at Iranian and Hizballah activities in Latin America.

Mexico’s Two Major Crime Cartels Now at War by William Booth, Washington Post.

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #11: MG 34 Machine Guns Recovered in Nayarit— Hezbollah Arms Transfer Concerns

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #10: Claymore Anti-Personnel Mine (and Other Military Hardware) Recovered in Zacatecas.

Should U.S. Troops Fight the War on Drugs? New York Times debate on whether the U.S. military should be involved in the war on drugs.

Lessons of Iraq Help U.S. Fight a Drug War in Honduras by Thom Shanker, New York Times.

Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability by Dr. Phil Williams and Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute.