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Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Jacobin
Posted: October 26th, 2025
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/drug-trafficking-military-power-...
Seth Harp’s The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces [is] an exposé of the criminality and violence carried out by returning Special Forces personnel in American communities. We’re in the middle of a political crisis right now in which the military’s role is being radically expanded, including into US domestic life, all on the basis of fighting crime and drugs, and drugs being a national security threat. Yet ... damaged soldiers end up carrying out crime and violence at home as well as getting involved in the drug trade. Todd Michael Fulkerson, a Green Beret who was trained at Bragg, was convicted earlier this year of trafficking narcotics with the Sinaloa cartel. Another guy, Jorge Esteban Garcia, who was the top career counselor at Fort Bragg for twenty years — his job was to mentor and coach retiring soldiers on their career prospects — was literally recruiting for a cartel and was convicted of trafficking methamphetamine and supporting a violent extremist organization. And then a group of soldiers in the 44th Medical Brigade at Fort Bragg — all these soldiers are at Fort Bragg — were convicted of trafficking massive amounts of ketamine. You can look at every single region of the world that’s a massive drug production center — which there really are not that many of them — and in every case, you can see that US military intervention preceded the country’s becoming a narco state, not the other way around.
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