The Future Of Warfare Is Now, Old Man: Updates From The Drone Front In the summer of 2025, policy changes enacted by the Trump administration slowed the flood of migrants across the U.S./Mexico border to a steady stream. The cartels, in order to protect their income, stepped up their efforts to corrupt local law…
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21st Century Privateers?
Constitution Empowers Congress to Tap American ‘Pirates’ to Fight Cartels I personally know about a dozen well heeled “Pirates” who would be more than happy to be Issued “Letters of Marque and Reprisal!” Let the Games Begin Gents!
Criminal Insurgency 101: Criminal Groups Are Ramping Up Explosives in Mexico
Criminal Groups Are Ramping Up Explosives in Mexico A series of recent attacks using improvised explosive devices in Mexico points to a generalization of warfare tactics among criminal groups. A Mexican army helicopter was flying over a hill in Apatzingán, in the western state of Michoacán, when it was attacked by a criminal group…
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Crime Awareness: Methamphetamine – A Growing Demonic Plague
Methamphetamine: A Growing Demonic Plague In 2018, an estimated 1 million people age 12 and older met diagnostic criteria for methamphetamine dependence or abuse. Among that figure, 24,000 were adolescents, while 188,000 were young adults ages 18 to 25. The other 751,000 were adults age 26 and older. During 2015–2018, an estimated 1.6 million…
The 5 Most-Read Criminal Group Profiles in 2024
The 5 Most-Read Criminal Group Profiles in 2024 This year saw critical changes within some of the most notorious criminal organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, reflecting their resilience and vulnerabilities. The region’s most powerful criminal groups continue to threaten public security. From internal disputes that unleashed waves of violence to intensified repression…
Texas News: Texas Cities Plagued with Mexican Cartel Truck Thefts
Texas Cities Plagued with Mexican Cartel Truck Thefts The recent federal conviction and sentence of a man who tried to run over an FBI agent while driving a stolen truck into Mexico highlights a growing trend plaguing South Texas. Multiple cities are seeing a rise in the thefts of four-door SUVs and pickups that…
Taking Notes on the Cartel Criminal Insurgency
Cartel Gunmen Used Car Bombs in Two Coordinated Terrorist Attacks in Mexico Although this happened in Deep Mexico (The State of Guanajuato is roughly 10 hours from the border at Laredo) it would behoove the Armed Citizen to pay attention to cartel tactics such as these, because as we all we know, their Area…
Nature Versus Nurture (Versus Immigration)
Nature Versus Nurture (Versus Immigration) (By A Former Border Patrolman) Recently Trump went viral by saying that immigrants to America have “bad genes”. “You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we’ve got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” [Trump’s ‘words matter’: Republican strategist reacts…
Immigrants, Crime, And The Democrats
Immigrants, Crime, And The Democrats Immigrant crime is in the news, because Trump is talking about it—although if you read the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other MSM outlets, what you see is “Immigrant Crime Denial”. Samples of Immigrant Crime Denial from Google News: What’s behind recent false claims about immigrants and crime? Politifact, September 27, 2024…