We can witness a myriad of operations, strategies and technologies in the contemporary counter-narcotics trafficking environment - from cocaine shipments in the Caribbean basin to opium trails in the Afghanistan highlands. Despite the vast number of troops required to suppress a narcotics trade on a national and inevitably international level, the task of actually interdicting or intercepting high value targets (HVT) actively involved in an organisation of such illegal activities has become the preserve of Special Operations Forces (SOF) community.
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