Friday, November 8, 2019

Mexican cartels beat the government in open warfare

This is an incredible story that the mainstream media is ignoring. Mexican cartels defeated the government in an all out battle. It's a perfect example of 4th generation warfare.
The Mexican government sent troops to capture members of the Sinaloa cartel, but they were outmaneuvered and beaten in open battle. This is shocking. It would be the equivalent of the Gangster Disciplines defeating the Chicago Police and National Guard in open warfare.
 ...the U.S. government requested Guzmán Lopez's arrest for extradition on September 13, and on October 9 a special Mexican army anti-drug unit traveled from Mexico City to Culiacan to prepare.  
Authorities were still in the process of obtaining a search warrant when the operation began on October 17 outside a large home where Guzmán Lopez had been located. 
As they moved on the house, gunmen began attacking those involved in the operation.
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What seemed clear was that once the operation started, government forces were quickly outmaneuvered by the Sinaloa cartel. 
Military planners had four additional teams forming an outer security ring for the operation, but the cartel's gunmen cut off the routes for three of them preventing additional support from arriving. 
You read that correctly: the cartel interdicted support elements, indicating that they have better military planning capabilities and better intelligence than the military does.

Let that sink in. The cartel beat military planners.


It gets worse: the cartel counterattacked in force, against MILITARY targets:
Meanwhile, the cartel sent convoys of gunmen to several military installations around the city to attack soldiers and their families.  
At one military housing block, a sergeant ushered children who were plttack soldiers and their families playing outside to safety, but he was taken hostage. 
In all, two officers and nine soldiers were taken hostage by the cartel, according to Sandoval.  The bulk of them were providing security for two fuel tanker convoys at a toll plaza on the outskirts of the city.  
Sandoval said soldiers estimated that 150 gunmen in 30 vehicles arrived. Once Guzmán Lopez was released, all the military personnel were let go and the team that had captured Guzmán Lopez left.
The cartel knows where the military installations are, and arrives in force. 150 men in 30 vehicles. That's a mechanized company.

Mexico has officially lost the war on the cartels. How can it possibly counter an organization that has better intelligence gathering abilities, and the capacity to swiftly counterattack?

Even with aircraft and tanks, the government is in trouble. It would be relatively easy to use Iraqi-style IEDs against tanks, while SAMs can take out aircraft.

Lest anyone doubt that the cartels have this sort of weaponry, consider that they have RPGs and machine guns, plus boatloads of cash.

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