U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) finds that one of its strongest needs is for more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)--particularly persistent, broad area surveillance to achieve its missions, its commander said. ISR needed to help interdict illicit trafficking, whether it be drugs, weapons or humans, all major concerns for the command, not a military threat to the nation, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser this week told the Defense Writers Group. And, some 80 percent of the trafficking takes place in the…
U.S. Southern Command Needs Persistent, Broad Area Surveillance, General Says
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