Plan Colombia: Reality of the Colombian Crisis and Implications for Hemispheric Security

As American foreign policy and military asset
management expand beyond the so-called "Drug War" in
Colombia, Professor Luz Nagle analyzes that country's
problems and makes recommendations regarding what it
will take to achieve stated U.S. and Colombian objectives in
that crisis situation. She also examines the concomitant
issue of "spillover" from the Colombian crisis into the rest of
the Latin American region. The results and recommendations
of this analysis go well beyond prescribing a simple
military solution to the complex political-economicsocial-
moral-security issues of this 50-year-old war. In these
terms, it becomes clear that the military in general and the
U.S. Army in particular must change in order to operate
more effectively in the full spectrum of current and future
conflict.