Can Mexico turn the tide against its powerful drug cartels? Vanda Felbab-Brown looks at President Felipe Calderon's promising new strategy.
Vanda Felbab-Brown is Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs (Brookings, 2009).
As the strategy debate over Afghanistan rises to a fever pitch, insurgency expert Vanda Felbab-Brown says we shouldn't be fooled by options that lie seductively “in the middle.”