A "New" Dynamic in the Western Hemisphere Security Environment: The Mexican Zetas and other Private Armies [Enlarged Edition]

by Max G. Manwaring and Strategic Studies Institute

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This monograph is intended to help political, military, policy, opinion, and academic leaders think strategically about explanations, consequences, and responses that might apply to the volatile and dangerous new dynamic that has inserted itself into the already crowded Mexican and hemispheric security arena, that is, the privatized Zeta military organization. In Mexico, this new dynamic involves the migration of traditional hard-power national security and sovereignty threats from traditional state and nonstate adversaries to hard and soft power threats from professional private nonstate military organizations. This dynamic also involves a more powerful and ambiguous mix of terrorism, crime, and conventional war tactics, operations, and strategies than experienced in the past. Moreover, this violence and its perpetrators tend to create and consolidate semi-autonomous enclaves (criminal free-states) that develop in to quasi-states-and what the Mexican government calls "Zones of Impunity."
  • ISBN10 1304883000
  • ISBN13 9781304883001
  • Publish Date 6 February 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Lulu.com
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 52
  • Language English