COIN in Mexico?
COIN in Mexico? A Response to Robert Culp's Strategy for Military Counter Drug Operations
by Patrick Corcoran
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It has grown fashionable in recent years to argue that the solution to Mexico's public security difficulties lies in treating organized crime within the context of counterinsurgency theory. Many have made this argument, one of the most recent being Robert Culp here at Small Wars Journal. This is an unfortunate misreading of the security problems that are plaguing Mexico. While COIN theory offers a handful of sensible ideas, as an overarching philosophical guide, it is an imperfect fit for Mexico.
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Patrick Corcoran is a student of international relations at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies. He lived in northern Mexico from 2005 to 2010 and blogs daily about Mexican security and politics at Gancho.
