Myanmar Transnational Crime and War
Antonio Graceffo Myanmar, the Southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma, is responsible for a highly intricate web of transnational crime.'' Myanmar, the Southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma,…
Transnational Crime on the China-Myanmar Border
By Antonio Graceffo On September 6, the United Wa State Party, the political arm of one of the most powerful ethnic resistance armies in Myanmar, handed over 1,207 Chinese online…
Drugs: The Largest National Security Threat for 2024
By Antonio Graceffo In its recently published Homeland Threat Assessment 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identifies drugs as the largest national security threat. More than 100,000 Americans died…
Breaking the Grip: Comprehensive Policy Recommendations to Defeat Drug Cartels
By Antonio Graceffo In 2022, drug overdoses claimed the lives of over 100,000 Americans. The primary sources of illegal drugs flooding into the United States are the Mexican drug cartels, who…
Narcotrafficking’s Impact on Source, Transit, and User Countries
By Antonio Graceffo Narcotrafficking is a transnational crime with drugs, weapons, money, and people crossing international borders for illicit purposes. Generally, narcotrafficking involves at least three countries: the source country,…
Sinaloa Cartel as international terror organization
By Antonio Graceffo The Sinaloa drug cartel is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. It also uses violence and corruption to control police, courts, and politicians…
Where Transnational Crime Meets Terrorism
By Antonio Graceffo Terrorist groups and transnational crime organizations share many of the same attributes, operating outside of the law, often committing violent acts and murder, as well as engaging…
Drug Cartels Terrorist Organizations Threaten U.S. Security
By Antonio Graceffo According to the State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report of 2022, Mexico is the primary source of illegal drugs in the United States, including heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, and…
Narcotrafficking: A National Security Threat
By Antonio Graceffo The United States is facing a crisis at its porous southern border, which 2.78 million undocumented aliens crossed in 2022 [1]. At the same time, narcotics are…
CCP Doing Nothing to Stop Drug-Precursor Sales to the US
By Antonio Graceffo CommentaryRoughly 90 percent of fentanyl deaths in the United States can be traced back to China, with Mexican drug cartels turning Chinese precursor materials into finished products.…