The United States in Afghanistan, Colom­bia and Indochina

by Peter Dale Scott
2003, Lan­ham, Row­man & Lit­tle­field
ISBN 0742525228
248 pages, illustrated.

Author’s Descrip­tion
Drugs, Oil and War explores the under­ly­ing fac­tors that have engen­dered a US strat­egy of indi­rect inter­ven­tion in Third World coun­tries through alliance with drug-trafficking prox­ies. This strat­egy was orig­i­nally evolved in the late 1940s for the con­tain­ment of Com­mu­nist China; it has been resorted to since to secure con­trol over for­eign petro­leum resources. The result has been a stag­ger­ing increase in the global drug traf­fic and the mafias assorted with it, a prob­lem that will worsen until there is a change in pol­icy. The book traces also some of the processes by which some of these covert inter­ven­tions have esca­lated into war, and how present strate­gies to sup­port the US dol­lar have come to depend on US dom­i­na­tion of the global oil economy.

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