1997 Annual Defense Report Table of Contents - Air Force Magazine

The Department supports the counterdrug mission in five key areas:
• Dismantling the Cartels. DoD continues to enhance its technical support to domestic and
international drug LEAs through its all-source intelligence collection, analysis, and sharing
programs, and by providing linguist and documentation exploitation support.
• Source Nation Support. DoD provides support to those nations that demonstrate the political will
to combat narcotraffickers. Support is aimed at encouraging national resolve and regional
cooperation; enhancing air, land, river and maritime interdiction performance; and further
developing endgame (effective arrest, seizure of drugs, and prosecution) capabilities. DoD
achieves these objectives by providing intelligence, target cueing, initial detection and
monitoring, operational planning assistance, training in tactical procedures and equipment
maintenance, forward operating base infrastructure improvements, and logistics/ communication
support to source nation LEAs and military.
• Detection and Monitoring the Transport of Illegal Drugs. DoD supports domestic law
enforcement and host nation detection and monitoring efforts by emphasizing activities in the
drug source countries; expanding military-to-military contacts with the counterdrug units of
source nation armed forces' to improve their capability to conduct effective interdiction
operations; conducting robust but streamlined detection and monitoring operations in the transit
zone (the region between the source nations and the U.S. border region); focusing on intelligencecued
operations that directly support source nation and arrival zone operations; and focusing
activities in the United States to emphasize the illegal drug movement threat at critical border
locations.
• Direct Support to Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (DLEA) in CONUS. DoD directly supports
DLEAs in CONUS through active and reserve component support managed by the United States
Atlantic Command's Joint Task Force-Six at Fort Bliss, Texas; programs that provide
reconnaissance support, engineer construction support, intelligence analysts, linguists,
transportation, maintenance, equipment upgrade, and training; a program that provides excess
DoD equipment to federal and state agencies for counterdrug activities; and the Governors' state
plans for using the National Guard for counterdrug support to federal, state, and local DLEAs.
• Demand Reduction. The Department continues to pursue a very effective drug deterrence/testing
program focused on active duty military members, civilian employees, National Guard, and
reserve forces. In addition, DoD promotes military, civilian, and military family drug education,
training, awareness programs, and the National Guard volunteer military community outreach
efforts.
Countering the Spread and Use of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons
Beyond the five declared nuclear weapons states, at least 20 other nations have acquired or are attempting
to acquire NBC weapons and the means to deliver them. In fact, many of America's most likely
adversaries already possess chemical or biological weapons, and some appear determined to acquire
nuclear weapons. Such weapons in the hands of a hostile power threaten not only American lives and
interests, but also the United States' ability to project power to key regions of the world. The United
States will retain the capacity to defend against and respond decisively to the use of NBC weapons so that
an adversary will not perceive any advantage from employing them.
The major objectives of DoD counterproliferation policy are to:
• Support overall U.S. government efforts to prevent the acquisition of NBC weapons and missile
delivery systems.
• Support overall U.S. government efforts to roll back proliferation where it has occurred.
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