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Strengthening America's Southern Flank Requires a Better Effort
Publication Date: February 2004
Publisher(s): Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): James Jay Carafano; Stephen Johnson
Topic: Government (Internal security)
Keywords: National security
Type: Report
Abstract:
In the global war on terrorism, to defend the U.S. homeland and help its allies in the Western Hemisphere, the United States needs a new strategy that treats nascent democracies differently from the dictatorships they once were, meets the new threats from within the region, and moves beyond current tutorial and assistance relations toward sustained collaboration.