A Framework for countering organised crime: strategy, planning and the lessons of Irregular Warfare

This paper presents the ‘Framework of Analysis and Action’, originally designed for irregular warfare challenges, as an analytical framework to aid the assessment of and response to, organised crime. The framework builds on an instructional method long used within the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), at the U.S. National Defense University, to prepare practitioners for insurgency, terrorism, and state-based subversion. This report offers an adapted framework to help those charged with responding to organised crime with their analysis and planning.

Dr David Ucko & Dr Thomas Marks

September 2023