Drug trafficking into the U.S. could be a geopolitical tool used to attack the country from within

Study and practice of how sovereign states, international institutions, and non-state actors interact across borders. Encompasses diplomacy, negotiation, alliances, and conflict — the foundational domain through which global order is constructed, contested, and maintained.

A U.S. military campaign of lethal strikes against vessels suspected of trafficking narcotics in Latin American and Caribbean waters, which human-rights organisations describe as extrajudicial killings and which the U.S. government has not always supported with publicly released evidence.

Transnational criminal networks and cartels, including their trafficking, financial and resource-extraction activities and international efforts to counter them.