Southcom

The small group of contractors, based at El Dorado International Airport in northwest Bogotá and operating under the name Southcom Reconnaissance System (SRS), flew deep into Colombia searching for drug-smuggling infrastructure.

Flight Risk 2009

The small group of contractors, based at El Dorado International Airport in northwest Bogotá and operating under the name Southcom Reconnaissance System (SRS), flew deep into Colombia searching for drug-smuggling infrastructure.

Flight Risk 2009

The military has always loved high tech, and Thurman has Southcom researching new gadgetry, including radars that can look through a wall -- or a jungle canopy -- like X-rays.

Risky Business 2008

Already the Southcom commander has dispatched a team of officers from Panama to expand a command-and-control outpost in an office building in Rosslyn, Va., close to the Pentagon.

Risky Business 2008

Southcom wants to spend $191 million fighting drugs next year, sending as many as 100 military trainers into Latin America to teach tactics to local armies.

Risky Business 2008

Southcom officers deride DEA record keeping as a shoe-box operation.

Risky Business 2008

The third was a memorandum on similar lines from General Tom Hill, commander of US Southern Command (Southcom, covering Central and South America).

Newly released log shows history of approval of Gt'mo torture led to the very top 2008

According to a senior Southcom officer, the intelligence necessary to pick the targets will be ready as early as "next month."

Risky Business 2008

"Thurman had barely set foot in Latin America and suddenly he's Napoleon," says one unhappy Southcom veteran.

Max Thurman: The 'Robocop' General 2008

The military mind-set, says one Southcom briefing, will have to change from nuclear megatons to cocaine kilos.

Risky Business 2008