Mexico’s Cartels in 2026: From Trafficking Organizations to Territorial Insurgents
CJNG, Sinaloa, and the FTO designation debate – how Mexico’s cartels evolved into territorial insurgents, and what that means for US-Mexico security.
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CJNG, Sinaloa, and the FTO designation debate – how Mexico’s cartels evolved into territorial insurgents, and what that means for US-Mexico security.
MacDill breach and RAF Fairford arrests, hours apart in Sept 2026: every 2026 incident at both bases tested against the Iran war’s rear-area campaign.
Five arrested beside RAF Fairford, Sept 2026: the pre-incident FPCON Delta posture, the HAYI proxy model, and why Iran is the leading, unproven suspect.
The Berlin-Vienna plot’s alleged ringleader was a Haniyeh bodyguard granted UK citizenship: the Naim family links, the vetting gap and the UK rear base.
Three dossiers on the Iran war’s rear area: the averted RAF Fairford plot, the MacDill breach, and the gig-economy model behind Europe’s 2026 proxy attacks.
From the 2014 Ottawa cell to the 2026 Quebec City chemical-weapon plot charges: a decade of ISIS-linked cases in Canada and the pattern behind them.
Foresight audit: FATF’s 2026 ‘digital hawala’ report and 9/11-anniversary official remarks echo the April GCTA’s case that the 2000 CT playbook is spent.
Two linked dossiers on Hamas’s foiled Berlin-Vienna plot: the Turkey-coordinated cell, and the Haniyeh bodyguard who ran it from a British rear base.
Germany’s 214-page indictment, a Turkey training hub, a five-country sleeper footprint and a BfV informant who hid his role: Hamas’s Berlin-Vienna network.
Muslim Brotherhood in America series intro: five parts tracing the US network from seized internal papers to a 2026 Senate hearing, sourced and tiered.
Part V: the Muslim Brotherhood in America series closes with the throughline across four decades of evidence, and what the record does and does not prove.
Part IV: K-12 curricula, campus activism funding and a 2007 Virginia appointment of a Brotherhood-linked leader, plus what Jan 2026 designations change.
Part III: $7.7M in Islamic Development Bank-linked funds despite CAIR’s denials, federal grants after the FBI’s 2009 cutoff, and a 2026 HQ deal with NAIT.
Part II: from the Falls Church mosque that hired Anwar al-Awlaki to the founding of AMP, the organizations behind the Muslim Brotherhood’s American front.
Part I: seized papers, FBI wiretaps and a retired agent’s 2026 Senate testimony trace how CAIR was founded in 1994 as a shield for a Hamas-support network.
CommandEleven’s five-part series on the US domestic threat: right-wing accelerationism and 764, left-wing extremism, Islamist lone actors and Europe.
Part 5 of the US Domestic Threat Landscape: right-wing, left-wing and Islamist extremists share online radicalization pathways and low-barrier financing.
Part 4 tests whether Europe’s 2025-26 attacks on Jewish sites by Hamas, Hezbollah and accelerationists foreshadowed the Michigan synagogue attack.
Part 3: ISIS-inspired attacks returned to the US with New Orleans in 2025, mostly by under-20 plotters radicalized online, distinct from the Brotherhood.
Part 2: the 2025 Antifa terrorist designation, NSPM-7 and the Prairieland ICE trial verdict, and why the left-wing framework remains legally contested.
Part 1: the accelerationist lineage from The Order to Atomwaffen and grid plots, and why the FBI treats the 764 network as a distinct terrorism threat.
Two decades of US Treasury and State designations, and a deepening 2026 Houthi-al-Shabaab alliance, trace Iran’s evolving relationship with al-Qaeda.
Iran’s homeland threat to the US: the 2011 Arbabsiar plot, unattributed 2026 drone incursions at US bases, and an assessed IRGC sleeper-cell model.
How Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iraqi militias form a single designed network — and what leadership losses since 2024 have and haven’t changed.
Tracing the IRGC’s Western Hemisphere buildup — cartel partnerships, Quds Force strategy, and the financial trail to Hezbollah’s Unit 910.
Syria’s Captagon economy after Assad and Lebanon’s Hezbollah-run parallel state: four dossiers on how illicit economies outlast the governments around them.
Part 4 of the IRGC series: Hezbollah’s Unit 910, its Tri-Border Area and Venezuela networks, and the Aug 2026 US redesignation under the IRGC-QF.
CommandEleven assessment on IRGC-Quds Force and Hezbollah’s three-decade financial and logistics integration with Latin American and Mexican cartel networks.
Part 2: suspected cartel operatives used forged papers to join Ukraine’s International Legion for FPV drone skills, and the Russian spin that followed.
Part 1 of the IRGC series: how insurgents from the Sahel to South Asia swap state sponsors for kidnapping, extortion and smuggling as self-funding models.
A technical intelligence dossier evaluating geomorphic ingress specifications, multi-spectral subsurface mapping, and permanent tunnel elimination mechanics.
After Assad’s fall, Syria’s Captagon trade has splintered into a mobile cottage industry; the 2026 smuggling corridors into Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
How IRGC Units 190 and 6000 keep Red Sea transshipment corridors running despite international maritime interdiction.
How the IRGC operates as a parallel military state, building a multi-axis theater from western Iran to the Bab el-Mandeb.
CommandEleven’s Mosaic Defense model for the Pakistan-Afghanistan border: autonomous tiles with their own sensors, sealed databases and civil services.