Collegial Czar or Combatant Commander - Who Should Lead America's War on Drugs?

Abstract

Vietnam has long been considered America's longest war. Yet, today America has been involved in a 30-year war against illicit drugs. Starting as a campaign issue for Presidential candidate Richard Nixon, it has become a sexy political issue for several generations of politicians. Unfortunately, the failure to solve the problem has transformed drugs into a national security threat. The politics of the past 30 years, coupled with a massive increase in federal dollars to finance the war, has proven unsuccessful. The creation of a Drug Czar to bring about unity of effort has failed as a management tool. Given the situation, it is now time to appoint a "combatant commander," in this case the U.S. Attorney General, to fight the war against drugs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 06, 1998
Accession Number
ADA343343

Entities

People

  • Larry M. Keeton

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Budgets
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Drug Abuse
  • Drug Interdiction
  • Drug Trafficking
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse Science in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Strategic Security Studies