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Guns, Drugs and Crypto – Who’s funding the return of asymmetric warfare?

Guns, Drugs and Crypto – Who’s funding the return of asymmetric warfare?

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From the crisis in American democracy to the collapse of the Middle East’s petrochemical oligarchies, this is your guide to the dangers that mass media isn’t covering.

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Why does the militarily weaker side lose many battles but often win
the war? In the 21st Century the David-vs-Goliath threat of
asymmetric warfare – where small non-state militias and terror
groups defeat vastly better armed nation states in Iraq,
Afghanistan and elsewhere – is back. Now armed groups
including Yemen’s Houthi, Hamas and Islamic State are growing and
re-energised by a vast new funding sources: the global drugs trade,
and even crypto. Gavin Esler speaks to Dr David Ucko
– professor at the College of International Security Affairs,
National Defense University – and counterinsurgency and organised
crime expert Vanda Felbab-Brown to find out why asymmetric warfare
has returned, who’s funding it… and whether we can ever defeat
it. • “We have put a lot of stock in fences and walls which
may soon prove inadequate. What if you can fly a drone from North
Africa with pinpoint accuracy into a civilian airport?” – Dr
David Ucko • “A global revolution in synthetic drugs is
sweeping the world… and everywhere it’s associated with
intensified violence.” – Vanda Felbab-Brown • “If we
ignore this, then you get the Wagner Group and other players trying
to do their thing, as we see in the Sahel and across Africa.”
– Dr David Ucko Support This Is Not A Drill on Patreon to get
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Gavin Esler. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by
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