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| Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015The Kingpin Strategy
Cockburn, Andrewhttp://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/28/assassination-as-policy-in-washington-and-how-it-failed-1990-2015/ 
 Publisher:  CounterPunch
 Date Written:  28/04/2015
 Year Published:  2015
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how its adoption, in the form of targeted assassinations in the "war on terror," has similarly been a failure.
 
 
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