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The Emerging Need to Protect Critical Infrastructure and VIPs from Weaponized AI Drone Threats

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10.20.2026 at 07:03pm

NORTHCOM Expands Counter-UAS Operations Against Cartel Drones at the Southern Border

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10.19.2026 at 03:50am

Weapons Analysis: ELN and FARC Guerrillas Operating Armed Drones

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10.12.2026 at 03:06am

Evolving Mexican Cartel C-UAS Capabilities

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09.29.2026 at 02:55am

SWJ–El Centro Fellows Release New Edited Collection — States of Exception: Criminal Armed Groups and the Evolution of South American Policing

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09.28.2026 at 09:00pm

Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 40: South African and Nigerian Meth Labs and Global Expansion

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09.12.2026 at 06:10pm

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #55: Car Bombing against the Comandancia (Police Headquarters) in Ojocaliente, Zacatecas

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09.07.2026 at 10:54pm

What If We Paid Suppliers to Keep Precursor Chemicals Out of the Illicit Market?

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09.01.2026 at 10:40pm

Importing Warfare: The Rise of Cartel Drone Operations

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08.30.2026 at 10:12pm

El Centro Annotated Subject Bibliography: Third Phase Cartels and Criminalized States

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08.25.2026 at 01:52am

Old Paradigms for an Evolving Threat: Rethinking Brazil’s Fight Against Organized Crime

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08.21.2026 at 05:20am

A View from the CT Foxhole: Vanda Felbab-Brown, SWJ-El Centro Fellow

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