![]() ![]() Shifting Political Scene - Uneven democratic consolidation depresses democracy in the region. Deforestation, illegal mining, and climate change continue to erode the environment. ![]() Environmental Fragility - Many nations in the region are natural disaster prone. The United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture estimates that more than 42 million people in South America are suffering from hunger. ![]() As of 2020, the economic crisis in Venezuela led to devastating food shortage and starvation. ![]() Edward Daes[: Poverty - Over 61 million people live in extreme poverty and 220 million people live on less than $10 a day in this region. Some of the threats we face in the SOUTHCOM operational environment areU.S. This also includes "threat information fusion" through the expansion of collaboration and threat information sharing in targeted intelligence activities to include working on joint-combined intelligence products with our partners. forces with peacetime and contingency access. Over the past three years, USSOUTHCOM J2 intelligence professionals have taken Intelligence Security Cooperation (ISC) to a new level by collectively working by, with, and through our partners to improve intelligence cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean to counter threats - we call it "Collaboration Warfare." Collaboration Warfare includes all the theater security cooperation intelligence activities SOUTHCOM conducts with friends, allies, and partners to build relationships, increase partner nation capabilities for self-defense, conduct coalition operations, promote specific U.S. Therefore, gaining and maintaining access with willing and able partners in our AOR is paramount to maintaining security in the area of responsibility. As Jeffrey Marshall states in "Skin in the Game" in any partnership, building partner nation intelligence capabilities is a team sport - relationships matter they must be built, sustained, and nourished or they will not work. This AOR shares numerous common interests with the U.S. While its charter is to prepare for full-spectrum military operations from threats within its Area of Responsibility (AOR), its day-to-day mission is maintaining the peace through security cooperation with domestic and international partners. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) is unlike any other Combatant Command in the world. ![]()
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