{"product_id":"fighting-afghanistans-opium-dependency-as-u-s-army-command-and-general-staff-col-9781503253513","title":"Fighting Afghanistan's Opium Dependency as a Means of Disrupting al Qaeda's Illicit Funding","description":"Afghanistan supplies 87 percent of the global opium product, and terrorist organizations are using the narcotics trade to fund their operations. The nascent Afghani government has a limited capacity to combat this problem without significant assistance from the U.S. and its coalition partners. This book examines the question: Is the current model of interagency counterdrug cooperation sufficient to rid Afghanistan of its opium dependency and disrupt one of al Qaeda's main sources of funding? To help answer this question this thesis will review the current coalition, joint and interagency counternarcotics strategy, and in doing so will try to ascertain if there is a more efficient and effective model for interagency coordination as it pertains to counterdrug operations. Finally, this book will study the role of special operations forces in counterdrug operations through the historical model of the Latin American counternarcotics strategy and how special forces, in particular, can be used to a greater extent in the counterdrug role in Afghanistan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e U. S. Army Command and General Staff Col\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503253511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503253513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.16d","brand":"U. S. Army Command and General Staff Col","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48622974828799,"sku":"9781503253513","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fighting-afghanistans-opium-dependency-as-u-s-army-command-and-general-staff-col-9781503253513","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}