Chris Bernotavicius

is an active-duty commander in the US Navy and a foreign area officer specializing in Latin America. He is a military fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and an adjunct fellow at the U.S. Naval Institute.

Opinion / Forces

Bad Idea: Overpaying for Cocaine

The Department of Defense, alongside the U.S. Coast Guard, seizes enormous quantities of cocaine in transit to the United States each year. But DoD needs better metrics to capture exactly how much over-market value it “pays” for the cocaine it seizes.