关键词: |
Threats, Border security, Drones, Unmanned aerial vehicles, Scenarios, Department of defense, Department of homeland security, Drug trafficking, Smuggling, International law, Countermeasures, Drug interdiction, Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Detection, Jamming, U.s. mexico border, Drug cartel, Emerging threat, Disruptive technology, Organizational learning, Operational control, Hostile drones, Narco-drones, Deviant innovation, Borderland airspace, Airspace sovereignty, C-uas (counter unmanned aerial systems), Dhs (department of homeland security), Tco (transnational criminal organizations), Dod (department of defense), Cbp (customs and border protection) |
摘要: |
Over the last decade, the U.S. military and homeland security research groups have contemplated the issue of how to counter unmanned drones. Recently, border security agencies responsible for securing the U.S.Mexico border are having to contend with the emerging threat of Mexicos drug cartel narcotics-smuggling drones, also known as narco-drones. Narco-drones are an example of cartel innovation for smuggling, among other deviant purposes, that U.S. border security will need a strategy to counter. This study aimed to build on the conceptual framework related to hostile drones in the airspace and specifically to find a strategy that the Department of Homeland Security could pursue to manage the narco-drone problem in the border-zone airspace. The author argues that the Mexican drug cartels adopt innovative drone tactics in response to border security measures or lack thereof, as well as through organizational learning. This thesis concludes that leveraging U.S. military experience, anti-drone doctrine, and detection assets developed for countering terrorist drones in the war zones of Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan is an effective strategy for countering narco-drones at the U.S.Mexico border. |