Question

If Columbia's leading narco-insurgent group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (known by its Spanish acronym, the FARC) were planning to attack the US homeland, how would it go about it? What are the major factors that would influence the type of attack the FARC would launch? Who and what would be the most likely targets?

Answer 1

the revolutionary armed forces of columbia,was a guerrilla movement involved in the continuing columbian armed conflict since 1964.it was known to employ a variety of military tactics in addition to more unconventional methods including terrorism.the FARC-EP was formed during the cold war period as the marxist-Leninist peasant forec promoting a political line of agrarianism and anti-imperialism.the operations of FARCP-EP were funded by kidnap and ransom illigal mining,exortion or taxation of various formsof economic activity,and the taxation ,production and distribution of illigal drugs.

factors that influenced the type of attack :

• much of the columbia's territory is beyond the central governments control
• large part of the amazon region has provided safe haven for FARC
• the FARC has also developed significant military capability and experience during 40 years of armed struggle
• sustainable business model on kidnapping for ransom,exortion and increasingly the drug trade is the most important factor
• targets:
• it targets wealthy land owners,politicians,foreign terrorists and prominent columbian and foreign officials for ransom