Donald Trump and his newly-appointed border czar intend to send Special Forces soldiers to eliminate Mexican drug cartels but defense experts are warning they could be outmatched.
Deploying US troops to tackle the gangs is not a new idea in the circles of hardline Republicans.
Tom Homan, the man tapped by Mr. Trump to lead his border closures, recently told Fox News the president-elect “will use [the] full might of the United States Special Operations to take ‘em out”.
Michael Waltz picked to be the next national security adviser, last year introduced a congressional resolution to permit Joe Biden to use military force to tackle cartels smuggling fentanyl into the US.
But while the US Special Forces are considered among the world’s premier war machines, a report by the Cato Institute said the Mexican cartels might now be an equal match.
The Cato Institute, named after Cato’s Letters, is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank; nonpartisan and legally incorporated as a nonprofit organization.
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