American strategy towards Colombia has shifted from a counternarcotics focus to more comprehensive support for that nation’s security. This shift recognizes that Colombia’s problems are deeply rooted and go beyond illegal narcotics. In the last year the Bush administration committed…
This monograph is the first in a new Special Series of monographs that stems from the February 2001 and the March 2002 conferences–co-sponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and The Dante B. Fascell North-South…
Colombia’s deeply rooted and ambiguous warfare has reached crisis proportions in that Colombia’s “Hobbesian Trinity” of illegal drug traffickers, insurgents, and paramilitary organizations are creating a situation in which life is indeed “nasty, brutish, and short.” The first step in…
The author points out that Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) insurgents actively are pursuing a strategy to mobilize the disaffected and disposed people of Colombia, and to control the entire national territory. At the same time, he argues that…
The intent of this monograph was to explore the multiple dimensions of Colombia’s ongoing crisis and inform the public debate regarding the challenges faced by the statesmen, intellectuals, military strategists, and others who take on the responsibility to deal with…
Former Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Retired) argues that Colombia s 40 million citizens must not be deserted by their neighbors. Leaving the Colombians to deal in isolation with a pervasive drug problem will deeply affect all 800 million…
The instability, corruption, displacement of people, and violence generated by Colombia’s unholy trinity of narcotics traffickers, insurgents, and paramilitaries is spilling over into virtually all of northern South America and Panama. Thus, the stability and political sovereignty of the region…
This is one in the Special Series of monographs stemming from the February 2001 conference on Plan Colombia cosponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center of the University…
This monograph, with an introduction by Dr. Gabriel Marcella, includes four short, but interesting and important papers presented at a conference on Plan Colombia, sponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and the North-South Center…
The author argues that confidence in an efficient, courageous and transparent judiciary goes to the very heart of the governability of Colombia, and that Plan Colombia does not address the root causes of Colombia’s problems. These are weak government, inequality,…