Border security

This dissertation addresses the problem of militant infiltrations and militant attacks against border security outposts along the Turkish-Iraqi border. Attacks on border outposts have caused hundreds of soldier casualties in the past two decades. In the mountainous terrain, time…

The researcher began by conducting a comprehensive review of literature addressing two criminal conspiracies: the Islamic cult al Qaeda and the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13. The review was conducted to discover the extent to which congressional …

This thesis will examine the interdependent relationship of drugs, border security, and sovereignty following the 1991 collapse of communism in Russia and the 2001 US-led overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Regime changes, particularly in Russia, led to a sharp decline in s…