When Cartels Fight Back: El Mencho and the NIAC Question in Mexico

When Cartels Fight Back: El Mencho and the NIAC Question in Mexico

by , | Mar 23, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Targeting

When Cartels Fight Back: El Mencho and the NIAC Question in Mexico On February 22, 2026, Mexican Army Special Forces launched a pre-dawn raid on a gated residential compound in Tapalpa, a mountainous municipality in the Western state of Jalisco. Their target was...
Cross-Border Drone Strikes Against Mexican Drug Cartels

Cross-Border Drone Strikes Against Mexican Drug Cartels

by | Apr 21, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Policy, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Use of Force

Cross-Border Drone Strikes Against Mexican Drug Cartels In April 2025, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations Colby Jenkins testified that U.S. forces did not have legal authority to conduct cross-border drone strikes against drug cartels in Mexico even...
Criminal Organisations Party to an Armed Conflict and the Question of Targeting

Criminal Organisations Party to an Armed Conflict and the Question of Targeting

by , | Jan 19, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting

Criminal Organisations Party to an Armed Conflict and the Question of Targeting This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “Targeting Drug Lords: Challenges to IHL Between lege lata and lege ferenda” appearing in the International Review of the Red...