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April 7: The role of drugs in financing war and terrorism

Drugs are a resource for making war, says Paul Rexton Kan, an associate professor at the U.S. Army War College and the co-author of “Drugs and Contemporary Warfare.” The drug trade has become interwoven with the war trade in unexpected ways, he says. Kan is an associate professor of national security studies at the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. In this interview, he proposes strategies for dealing with this development.