Operation Martillo (Hammer)
On Aug. 15, 2012, the frigate USS Carr (FFG 52) was patrolling the Caribbean Sea, awaiting a resupply airdrop of …
Customs & Border Protection
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Southwest Border Security
Protecting the nation’s Pacific Southwest border has grown from a comparatively routine task to a complex and increasingly dangerous one …
Latest Edition of Defense Debuts at Sea-Air-Space Exposition: Digital Edition Available Now
The newest edition of Faircount Media Group’s Defense debuts at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space 2012 Exposition held April 16-18, at …
Mexico’s Drug War Next Door
According to published reports, Mexican drug cartels clear some $30 billion a year on marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine moved …
What 9/11 Has Wrought
Many people – national security and law enforcement officials, think-tank analysts, and frontline agents and operatives – have said, in …
The Coast Guard and Southwest Border Security
On March 16, 2011, Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard’s assistant commandant for marine safety, security, and stewardship, testified …
Faircount Media Group Releases Defense Summer 2011 Edition
In the Summer 2011 Edition of Defense
Clarence A. Robinson interviews Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) about the defense budget, his …
Illegal Re-entry Cases Skyrocket
A new report (http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/251/), compiled from Department of Justice data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, …
The Next New Virtual Border Fence?
On Jan. 18, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) released a Request for Information (RFI) in which it …
Border Enforcement: Migrant Interdiction at Sea
For two years now, the trend has held steady: In 2009, the number of arrests of smugglers attempting to travel …