Tequila Junction: 4th-Generation Counterinsurgency Book

"Tequila Junction" may be the first narco-counterinsurgency manual to be published in the U.S., so its proposals could help to turn the tide in Afghanistan. Parts One and Two of this book detail a foreign power's hidden assault on the Americas. While this assault's objective is obviously political, much of its support comes through local commodity trading (mostly in drugs). That makes it a well-veiled variant of 4th-Generation Warfare (that which is fought in the political, economic, psychological, and martial arenas simultaneously). Undermining the incursion before it can too drastically influence the heartland will take deploying lone U.S. infantry squads to isolated Combined Action Platoons (those shared with like numbers of host-country police and soldiers) and patrol bases in Colombia, Panama, and possibly even Mexico. Part Three has the unconventional warfare techniques those U.S. squads will need to survive many times their number of drug traffickers and narco-guerrillas. These techniques have been derived from the counterinsurgency methods of the Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Iranian armies (those with the most cultural predisposition toward 4GW).Read More