Strategic Planning and the Drug Threat

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DIANE Publishing - 187 pages
The authors illustrate how the principles and techniques of strategic and operational planning can be applied to the supply reduction side of our national effort to curb the trafficking of illicit drugs. They provide a detailed overview of the drug problem and discuss key ingredients and how an effective strategy can be formulated, including better ways to synchronize and sustain cooperative multiagency assaults on drug trafficking networks. While recognizing that eliminating the demand for drugs is the best and perhaps only lasting solution to the larger problem, the authors acknowledge that such can never be achieved without complementary supply reduction actions that curtail the international drug producers, the traffickers and the local pusher from selling their wares.

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Page 134 - Goal #3: Reduce health, welfare, and crime costs resulting from illegal drug use. Between 1990 and 1995, drug abuse cost our nation more than 100,000 dead. Drug-related social costs are estimated at $67 billion each year. About 70 percent of this cost is directly related to crime. US health care costs are growing steadily. In 1994, there were over 500,000 drug-related hospital emergencies.
Page 64 - Council is to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to national security.
Page 67 - Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat. Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
Page 161 - Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Under Secretaries of Defense Director, Defense Research and Engineering. Assistant Secretaries of Defense, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, Assistants to the Secretary of Defense, Director, Administration and Management, Directors of the Defense Agencies...
Page 12 - Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco.
Page 157 - Detecting, monitoring, and countering the production, trafficking, and use of illegal drugs is a high priority national security mission of the Department of Defense.
Page 26 - States for International Narcotics Matters, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Commissioner of the US Customs Service, the Special Assistant to the Secretary of HEW, the Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, the Commandant of the US Coast Guard, and myself, the Associate Director for Drug Policy on the White House Domestic Policy Staff. These meetings not only...
Page 33 - To this end, the study is sponsored jointly by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (OASD/SO/LIC) and the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (DOS/R).
Page 153 - Andean countries, a sustained, multi-year effort to provide economic, security, and law enforcement assistance is an essential element for a successful fight against illegal drugs abroad. Drug-producing criminal organizations control what amounts to private armies that challenge the law enforcement and military forces of their countries. Often such organizations are intertwined with insurgent forces that challenge directly the governments of their countries. The National Drug Control Strategy calls...
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