DEA and Pentagon Assessments Find Caribbean and Pacific Airstrikes Failed to Reduce Cocaine Flow to US

The diversification pattern — abandoning one method while scaling three others — suggests the strikes imposed a cost on go-fast operations specifically, not on the broader logistics network. That means the campaign succeeded tactically (making one route more expensive) but failed strategically (total flow unchanged), which is the predictable outcome when interdiction targets the cheapest, most replaceable link in the supply chain. If the Pentagon's own assessment admits this, the policy question becomes whether Congress continues funding a campaign that moves dots on a map without moving the needle on supply.