Transnational organized crime (TOC) is threatening to engulf regions and overwhelm governments, who are outfunded and outgunned by sophisticated networks with the savvy to conduct their activities on a global scale. An urgent interagency effort is needed to prevent an asymmetric security threat to the homeland and the Western Hemisphere. Also needed is information-sharing domestically and with partner nations. In this context, the military’s role in helping build partner capacity can hardly be overemphasized. U.S. Southern Command has developed the Whole-of-Society Information Sharing for Regional Display (WISRD) program through which participating organizations and nations share a comprehensive visualization of the TOC environment and meet a range of information requirements to help prevent criminal networks from further infiltration economies and governments |