William R. Brownfield: “It is impossible not to celebrate the end of 50 years of armed conflict.”

terrorist and insurgent groups have evolved into criminal entrepreneurs . . . engaging in illicit activities to finance their operations.

Over the last 4 years, the number of addicts and abusers of heroin in the United States of America has jumped between 75 and 80 percent.

If we are not working with those partners, we are at a minimum--at a minimum--failing to make use of a very effective means to multiply the impact of whatever we are doing.

If we do not have an adequate and functioning road system, counter-narcotic strategy will not succeed.