India, Oct. 30 -- Defense and security leaders from 19 nations across the Western Hemisphere worked to advance a campaign plan to dismantle dangerous transnational cartels and narco-terrorist networks during an Americas Counter Cartel Coalition forum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, earlier this week.
The forum convened senior defense ministers, military chiefs and public security leaders, including Gen. Francis L. Donovan, commander of U.S. Southern Command, and Eric Geressy, the senior advisor to the secretary of war for strategy. Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader addressed the conference. During the forum, leaders spearheaded the development of an operational campaign plan and a governance charter. The goal is to establish...