books.google.com - Inaugurated in 1984, America's "War on Drugs" is just the most recent skirmish in a standoff between global drug trafficking and state power. From Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars in China to the activities of Colombia's drug cartels and their suppression by U.S.-backed military forces today,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Drug_wars.html?id=d12rPr834SEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDrug wars