The Strangulation Strategy: Beyond Kinetic Force, a Case for Total Economic Warfare

When the first contingents of the Gang Suppression Force (FRG), the operational embodiment of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), deploy in 2026, they will not be facing a simple uprising of ragtag bandits. They will be confronting a diversified, resilient, and perfectly integrated criminal “holding company.” If we persist in treating “Viv Ansanm” as a mere security anomaly that can be erased with armored vehicles, we are condemned to repeat the failure of MINUSTAH: a surface-level pacification that inevitably collapses as soon as foreign troops withdraw.

Réginald Surin
06 Jan 2026 — Lecture : 7 min.
The Strangulation Strategy: Beyond Kinetic Force, a Case for Total Economic Warfare

Force de répression des gangs

The cold, clinical reality is that this coalition has become a rational economic entity. Designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State, it operates according to market logics, optimizes its value chains, and manages cash flows which, according to our cross-estimates, range between 150 and 200 million dollars annually. This figure—colossal in an anemic economy—allows it to buy loyalties, corrupt officials, import weapons of war, and substitute for the State in the provision of precarious social servic

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