U.S. Southern Command and its partners lack the maritime assets needed to stop two-thirds of the traffickers they track, the command's top general said today. To achieve its mission of helping to halt transnational organized crime, SOUTHCOM's commander Gen. Douglas Fraser said he could use more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets, as well as more maritime capability that can be used to intercept illicit traffickers traveling through Caribbean and eastern Pacific waters. Fraser said that ISR requirements top his integrated...
