Strategic Notes On Third Generation Gangs

Author : John P. Sullivan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781796095609

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Strategic Notes on Third Generation Gangs by John P. Sullivan Pdf

Strategic Notes on Third Generation Gangs builds upon the third generation street gang (3Gen Gang) theory first articulated in a series of papers by John P. Sullivan in 1997. From that foundation, Dr. Sullivan and Dr. Robert J. Bunker, editors of this volume, and others have expanded that core to articulate the threat that sophisticated gangs with transnational reach and political dimensions pose to community, national, and global security. This Small Wars Journal-El Centro Anthology provides empirical depth to their theoretical perspective, bringing together strategic notes and essays on third generation gangs and military-trained gang members with new content assessing the theoretical and policy ramifications of both theory and reality on the ground. – Dave Dilegge, SWJ Editor-in-Chief

Author : John P. Sullivan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781669809531

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Competition in Order and Progress by John P. Sullivan Pdf

Competition in Order and Progress examines the competition in statemaking between criminal enterprises (gangs, militias, and criminal armed groups) and the state. The title builds from Brazil’s motto Ordem e Progresso to capture the dynamics of state transition in Brazil’s favelas, prisons, and beyond.

Author : Robert J. Bunker
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781491739563

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Crime Wars and Narco Terrorism in the Americas by Robert J. Bunker Pdf

This work marks the 3rd Small Wars Journal—El Centro anthology. Its analyses, crafted by over thirty contributing authors, forms a compilation of the violence and corruption in Mexico plaguing the first year of Enrique Peña Nieto’s presidency. Instances of spillover violence in the United States and the gang and cartel crime wars in other Latin American countries are also chronicled. Spanish language article appendices are additionally incorporated in this important anthology. Dave Dilegge SWJ Editor-in-Chief

Author : John P. Sullivan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781664124332

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Covid-19, Gangs, and Conflict by John P. Sullivan Pdf

The Coronavirus pandemic is fueling conflict and fostering extremism while concurrently empowering gangs, cartels, and mafias in their quest for power and profit. In COVID-19, Gangs, and Conflict, Editors John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker bring together a curated collection of both new and previously published material to explore the trends and potentials of the global pandemic emergency. Topics include an exploration of proto-statemaking by criminal groups, the interaction of pandemics and conflict, as well as a comparison of gangs, criminal cartels, and mafias exploiting the crisis and exerting criminal governance in Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, and South Africa. Implications for national security, biosecurity, slums, transnational organized crime, and threats and opportunities in the contested pandemic space are assessed. SWJ

Author : John P. Sullivan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781984543936

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The Rise of the Narcostate by John P. Sullivan Pdf

This book is our sixth Small Wars Journal—El Centro anthology, covering writings published between 2016 and 2017. The theme of this anthology pertains to the rise of the narcostate (mafia states) as a result of the collusion between criminal organizations and political elites—essentially authoritarian regime members, corrupted plutocrats, and other powerful societal elements. The cover image of the mass demonstration concerning the disappearance of the forty-three Ayotzinapa Teachers’ College students held at Mexico City’s Zócalo Plaza in November 2014 provides an archetype of this anthology’s theme. This anthology includes the following special essays—Preface: “New Wars” and State Transformation by Robert Muggah, Igarapé Institute; Foreword: Crime and State-Making by Vanda Felbab-Brown, The Brookings Institution; Postscript: Crime, Drugs, Terror, and Money: Time for Hybrids by Alain Bauer, CNAM Paris; and Afterword: The Rise of the Oligarchs by Col. Robert Killebrew, US Army (Ret.). Dave Dilegge (SWJ, Editor-in-Chief)

Author : Robert J. Bunker
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781475987331

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Mexican Cartel Essays and Notes: Strategic, Operational, and Tactical by Robert J. Bunker Pdf

This second Small Wars JournalEl Centro anthology signifies the important debate that this new forum, focusing on the crime wars and criminal insurgencies taking place in Mexico and other regions of the Americas, is helping to generate in U.S. defense and homeland security circles. The debate comes at a time when neither of the two major U.S. presidential candidates were willingly to candidly discuss this issue and at the end of the recent Felipe Caldern administration which saw over 80,000 dead, 20,000 missing, and 200,000 internal refugees stemming from gang and cartel violence during its tenure in Mexico. Dave Dilegge SWJ Editor-in-Chief

Author : Carter F. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538135457

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Gangs and the Military by Carter F. Smith Pdf

Over the past several decades, there has been a continuous and growing focus on street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and domestic extremist groups. Many of these groups have members with military training, and some actively recruit from current and former military veterans and retirees. That military experience adds to the dangerousness of veteran gang members, as well as those groups they associate with. Communities everywhere are experiencing the damaging impact of gang criminal behavior. By observing gang activity from the Revolutionary War to today Smith examines the presence of military-trained, often veteran, gang members in the communities. He looks at the turning points in gang investigations in the military, and also looks at the laws and policies designed to specifically counter the criminal activity the threats of gang activity pose on a community. Grounded in current knowledge and research, Gangs and the Military successfully addresses the growing presence of criminal gang members in the United States. As well as reflects on how the authorities that counter and combat them are doing so on a national and global level.

Author : Robert J. Bunker,John P. Sullivan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781664111431

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Criminal Drone Evolution: Cartel Weaponization of Aerial IEDS by Robert J. Bunker,John P. Sullivan Pdf

Dr. Robert J. Bunker is Director of Research & Analysis, C/O Futures, LLC and is a Senior Fellow with Small Wars Journal-El Centro. Dr. John P. Sullivan served as a Lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and is a Senior Fellow with Small Wars Journal-El Centro.

Author : Max G. Manwaring
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Gangs
ISBN : UOM:39015061470186

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Street Gangs by Max G. Manwaring Pdf

The primary thrust of the monograph is to explain the linkage of contemporary criminal street gangs (that is, the gang phenomenon or third generation gangs) to insurgency in terms of the instability it wreaks upon government and the concomitant challenge to state sovereignty. Although there are differences between gangs and insurgents regarding motives and modes of operations, this linkage infers that gang phenomena are mutated forms of urban insurgency. In these terms, these "new" nonstate actors must eventually seize political power in order to guarantee the freedom of action and the commercial environment they want. The common denominator that clearly links the gang phenomenon to insurgency is that the third generation gangs' and insurgents' ultimate objective is to depose or control the governments of targeted countries. As a consequence, the "Duck Analogy" applies. Third generation gangs look like ducks, walk like ducks, and act like ducks - a peculiar breed, but ducks nevertheless! This monograph concludes with recommendations for the United States and other countries to focus security and assistance responses at the strategic level. The intent is to help leaders achieve strategic clarity and operate more effectively in the complex politically dominated, contemporary global security arena.

Author : Robert J. Bunker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781664180505

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Illicit Tactical Progress by Robert J. Bunker Pdf

This book is an eye-opener that may be an appalling representation of current events in Mexico, but it is based on factual reports of the strength, manner, and frequency of the cartel violence that occurs every day in Mexico. ... As long as the cartels continue to keep their wars inside Mexico and as long as Mexico does not ask for US help, the status quo will continue, and we will see this level and scope of violence incrementally increase in that nation.

Author : John P. Sullivan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1475927304

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Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by John P. Sullivan Pdf

In sum, this anthology represents some of the best and brightest scholars of today who are writing on the evolving security environment in Mexico and the implications this may hold for the United States. They have greatly enhanced our understanding of crime wars and criminal insurgencies—21st century war and conflict waged by non-state entities— and the impact this new form of warfare is having on states. For this, we embrace them and have established the new SWJ El Centro forum to further promote their professionalism and scholarship. Dave Dilegge SWJ Editor-in-Chief

Author : RobertJ. Bunker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351547666

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Studies in Gangs and Cartels by RobertJ. Bunker Pdf

Concerns over the changing nature of gangs and cartels and their relationships to states in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has resulted in the emergence of a scholarly body of work focused on their national security threat potentials. This body of work, utilizing the third generation gangs and third phase cartel typologies, represents an alternative to traditional gang and organized crime research and one that is increasingly influencing the US defense community. Rather than being viewed only as misguided youth and opportunistic criminals or, in their mature forms, as criminal organizations with no broader social or political agendas, more evolved gangs and cartels, are instead seen as developing political, mercenary, and state-challenging capacities. This evolutionary process has emerged due to the growing illicit economy and other unintended consequences of globalization.This important anthology of writings by Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan draws upon a collection of their works from the mid-1990s to the present with the addition of new essays written specifically for this publication. The work will be of great interest to academics and students in the fields of political science and criminal justice and to military, law enforcement, and governmental professionals and policy makers.This book is a collection of new and previously published works from a variety of publications, a full list of which is on the Citation Information page.

Author : Max G. Manwaring
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780806185941

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Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries by Max G. Manwaring Pdf

As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. Threats to security are now as likely to come from armed propagandists, popular militias, or mercenary organizations as they are from conventional armies backed by nation-states. In this timely book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of irregular warfare—the gang. Since the end of the Cold War, some one hundred insurgencies or irregular wars have erupted throughout the world. Gangs have figured prominently in more than half of those conflicts, yet these and other nonstate actors have received little focused attention from scholars or analysts. This book fills that void. Employing a case study approach, and believing that shadows from the past often portend the future, Manwaring begins with a careful consideration of the writings of V. I. Lenin. He then scrutinizes the Piqueteros in Argentina, gangs in Colombia, private armies in Mexico, Hugo Chavez’s use of popular militias in Venezuela, and the looming threat of Al Qaeda in Western Europe. As conventional warfare is increasingly eclipsed by these irregular and “uncomfortable” wars, Manwaring boldly diagnoses the problem and recommends solutions that policymakers should heed.

Author : Max G. Manwaring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Gangs
ISBN : 1584871911

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Street Gangs by Max G. Manwaring Pdf

The primary thrust of the monograph is to explain the linkage of contemporary criminal street gangs (that is, the gang phenomenon or third generation gangs) to insurgency in terms f the instability it wreaks upon government and the concomitant challenge to state sovereignty. Although there are differences between gangs and insurgents regarding motives and modes of operations, this linkage infers that gang phenomena are mutated forms of urban insurgency. In these terms, these "new" nonstate actors must eventually seize political power in order to guarantee the freedom of action and the commercial environment they want. The common denominator that clearly links the gang phenomenon to insurgency is that the third generation gangs' and insurgents' ultimate objective is to depose or control the governments of targeted countries. As a consequence, the "Duck Analogy" applies. Third generation gangs look like ducks, walk like ducks, and act like ducks - a peculiar breed, but ducks nevertheless! This monograph concludes with recommendations for the United States and other countries to focus security and assistance responses at the strategic level. The intent is to help leaders achieve strategic clarity and operate more effectively in the complex politically dominated, contemporary global security arena.

Author : Hal Brands
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781584874423

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Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala :. by Hal Brands Pdf