Counternarcotics: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan

Abstract

Since 2002, stemming opium poppy cultivation and drug production in Afghanistan has been an important, though not primary, goal for the United States, its coalition partners, and the Afghan government. While very little Afghan heroin comes to the United States, the Afghan drug trade has undermined reconstruction and security goals in many ways, including by financing insurgent groups, fueling government corruption, eroding state legitimacy, and exacting an enormous human and financial toll. From fiscal year (FY) 2002 through FY 2017, the U.S. government allocated approximately $8.62 billion for counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan. This included more than $7.28 billion for programs with a substantial counternarcotics focus and $1.34 billion on programs that included a counternarcotics component.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1139386

Entities

Organizations

  • Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Commerce
  • Criminal Justice System
  • Department Of Defense
  • Drug Abuse
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Terrorists
  • United States

Readers

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  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.