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The Fort Bragg Cartel

Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

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The Fort Bragg Cartel

Von: Seth Harp
Gesprochen von: Dan John Miller
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A New Yorker Best Book of 2025
A Forbes Best True Crime Book of 2025

“Probably the most gripping, memorable, eye-opening book I’ve read in months.” —David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times

“Propulsive.” —The Washington Post

“Engrossing. . . . Truly shocking.” —The New Republic

“The Fort Bragg Cartel opens like a nonfiction thriller and never lets up. A page-turning investigation into the dark side of our forever wars.”
—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S

A groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at America’s premier special operations base, and what the crimes reveal about drug trafficking and impunity among elite soldiers in today’s military

In December 2020, a deer hunter discovered two dead bodies that had been riddled with bullets and dumped in a forested corner of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the dead men, Master Sergeant William “Billy” Lavigne, was a member of Delta Force, the most secretive “black ops” unit in the military. A deeply traumatized veteran of America’s classified assassination program, Lavigne had done more than a dozen deployments in his lengthy career, was addicted to crack cocaine, dealt drugs on base, and had committed a series of violent crimes before he was mysteriously killed. The other victim, Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Dumas, was a quartermaster attached to the Special Forces who used his proximity to clandestine missions to steal guns and traffic drugs into the United States from abroad, and had written a blackmail letter threatening to expose criminality in the special operations task force in Afghanistan.

As soon as Seth Harp, an Iraq war veteran and investigative reporter, begins looking into the double murder, he learns that there have been many more unexplained deaths at Fort Bragg recently, other murders connected to drug trafficking in elite units, and dozens of fatal overdoses. Drawing on declassified documents, trial transcripts, police records, and hundreds of interviews, Harp tells a scathing story of narco-trafficking in the Special Forces, drug conspiracies abetted by corrupt police, blatant military cover-ups, American complicity in the Afghan heroin trade, and the pernicious consequences of continuous war. Militär Mord Organisiertes Verbrechen Politik & Regierungen True Crime

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A long oberdue corrective to the glorification of 'operators' in popular fiction, this book shows both the criminality and the tragedy of those tasked with carrying out the 'surgical strikes' that are often demanded as a quick and easy alternative to large scale military violence. Both at a societal and a personal level, the destruction they inflict outwards is reflected by destruction within. I disagree with other reviews that the title is hyperbolic, because there is no formal cartel at Fort Bragg. The US government's active coverup of drug trafficking and even murder, as well as it's treatment of those who speak out is transsforming these crimes of individuals and cliques within the special forces to a defacto cartel.

A shocking pulling back of the curtain

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The title suggests delving into and exposing a drug cartel associated with Fort Bragg. Instead we get a main story of a manslaughter as the key hook in to say there is a drug, Alcohol, and Violence problem there. I have listened multiple interviews of the author, and even though it is in the title, that there is military complicit in the drug trade, he does not make the case, ever. Just that drugs and alcohol are abused. Tragic story, tragic deaths and ruined lives, no attempt to make the big connection.

History and truth are important, but what was the point here?

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