Tese de Mestrado em "Operations Research" apresentada à Naval Postgraduate School, tendo como orientador W. Matthew Carlyle. Ficheiro de 1,92 MB em formato PDF (110 p.).

I. Introduction. A. Cocaine and Illicit Trafficking: A Destabilizing Threat. B. Joint Interagency Task Force South: A History. C. A Shifting Operational-Strategic Context. 1. The U.S. Strategic Rebalance To The Asia-Pacific Region. 2. Operational Gap: Retirement Of the U.S. Navy’s Counterdrug Workhorse. 3. Irregular Warfare Methods for a New Paradigm. D. Scope, Goal, and Benefits of Study. E. Social-Functional Network Description. 1. A Representative Functional Trafficking Network. 2. A Representative Social-Management Network. 3. The Combined Social-Functional Network. F. Thesis Organization. II. Literature Review. A. Quantitative Network Analysis Methods. 1. Network Flow Problems. 2. Attacker-Defender and Defender-Attacker Network Interdiction Models. 3. Statistical Approaches. B. Social Network Analysis. 1. Traditional SNA Methods. 2. Enhancements to SNA. C. Combined Models. III. Social-Functional Interdiction Modeling. A. Drug Trafficking Organization Social-functional Network Interdiction Model. Formulation. 1. Sets. 2. Indices. 3. Parameters and Data. 4. Decision Variables. 5. Formulation. 6. Discussion. B. Enumeration of Attacker Interdictions. IV. Data, Results, and Analyses. A. Hypothetical Data and Development. 1. Functional Network Cocaine Data and Assumptions. 2. Social Network Resource Data and Assumptions. 3. Social-Functional Network Data and Assumptions. B. Model Results and Analyses. 1. Analysis of One-DTO Attack Plans. 2. Analysis of Two-DTO Attack Plans. 3. Analysis of Three-DTO Attack Plans. 4. When Evidence-Gathering against DTO-G Is Desired. 5. Summary of Results and Analyses. V. Recommendations and Conclusions. Appendix A. Additional Data. Appendix B. Complete Results. List of References. Initial Distribution List.