Captivating, enlightening and well-documented: the great Peter Dale Scott!

After The Road to the new world disorder, a truly remarkable book, Peter Dale Scott is back with this sequel. And again, it gives us a striking work! Doctor in Political Science and former university, its methodology has not changed: an extensive bibliography and an impressive number of sources 'is a hundred pages of notes', sustain a stimulating and original argument. In addition to explaining the relationship between drug trafficking and the US intelligence agencies, the book leads the reader to understand how drug trafficking fuels the American war machine. It also helps to realize how this structural role of drug trafficking and organized crime in the foreign and domestic policies of the United States is underestimated by most academics and journalistic analyzes, which makes this book even more indispensable.

One of the main interests of this book is that it provides an overview of clandestine operations by US intelligence. It also helps to understand the historical evolution. Indeed, the author deals extensively drug trafficking in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Central Asia since the postwar period. It demonstrates how the use of narcotics by the CIA allies in the fight against the USSR has switched from a defensive logic Thailand to Laos offensive logic, leading to the Vietnam War and the explosion of production and drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He then explains how this model, which allowed the recovery of drug trafficking in the region after the Second World War, moved to Central Asia and significantly destabilized Afghanistan since the 1980 'including strengthening extremist networks fueled by drugs and by encouraging opium production after the NATO intervention in 2001.

After analyzing in depth what he calls "CIA narcotic overall connection", the author is interested in more detail in the American war machine. It is particularly exciting description of private mercenary companies and intelligence 'or how they benefit from the ongoing violence while states formally finance to ensure stability and security. Then the author demonstrates how what he calls "deep events" such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident (initiating the Vietnam War) or the September 11 attacks have systematically preceded and justified the war inputs United States. In addition to explain how drug trafficking feeds the US war machine, it leads us to understand how and why the production and trafficking of drugs routinely explode where the United States intervenes militarily.

Finally, the great merit of this book is to clear up us on the dark world of intelligence, drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism and the US military machine in constant state of war since 11 September. He brings us better understand the interactions between these environments usually presented as an antagonist by the media and by most academic analyzes. Indeed, as aptly expressed Daniel Ellsberg to describe this book, "I told the previous dazzling book of Peter Dale Scott on this subject [...] 'he was spending most of journalistic explanations and academics on our past and present interventions to government propaganda written for children '. His latest book is even better. Read the! ".