You forget the equipment, training (sniper), clandestine experience in Special Operations these best of the best Spec Op guys have. Don't forget the Intel.
Compared to some few Cartel bosses and their lieutenants, most are just like any other inner city thug, their training is lacking. If President Trump sends in Delta and Seals, we have a long haul but eventually will break the back of the Cartels. This is quite an opportunity.
Our guys better focus on making sure their families don’t get whacked.
“If President Trump sends in Delta and Seals, we have a long haul but eventually will break the back of the Cartels.”
Nope. It would take WAY more than that. Cartels have around 170-180k soldiers. That is roughly the size of the Viet Cong in any given year, and they cover a nation 6 times the size of Vietnam. And don’t kid yourself, they are tough, well trained and armed and are probably the most brutal enemy on earth at the moment. They have massive funding. They have huge well funded and very techy geek intelligence units with young kids that you would never look at and think “cartel”.
It would be a long hard war and would not be successful without a large conventional commitment. One, the US Border would need to be sealed, not border patrol sealed, but hundreds of thousands of US soldiers sealed. That because a war in Mexico would launch a refugee wave that would dwarf this last one.
And the enemy is all over here in the USA. Wait till McP’s SEAL bar gets bombed some night, or completely unrelated civilian places shot up. Yeah, they have MANPADS, and they will bring down airliners. You’ll see US mayors, military leaders off base, military dependents etc kidnapped, beheaded, hanged from overpasses, etc.
People see SF/SEAL movies and think of course our 3000 shooters can wipe out a force of 170k.
The only hope is a large conventional force, and a partnership with the Mexican government that the people down there lose their fear and start to think we are there to actually save that society from the cartels. Then we might hit a tipping point that the locals might support us.
It might be worth it, but some half assed SF only approach would just make a bigger mess.
El Chapo Guzman is in the Supermax prison in Colorado right now. Sinaloa didn’t slow down a bit.
BTW, no anti-cartel war is real if we do not see Patel’s FBI and accountants marching into 3 or 4 banks at 8am some morning with warrants and seizure orders. Wells Fargo, B of A, HSBC, etc... Then we’ll know it’s real.
Yup. Doing nothing emboldens the current crop of cartels, and will grow more. Instead, some here want to hide under the sheets.