The contemporary drug war across the Americas no longer resembles a state-versus-cartel clash but a networked conflict in which market forces, violence and geopolitics reciprocally reinforce one another. From the polydrug market in the United States, through transit corridors, to decentralized criminal structures in Latin America — this war has no single map. It does, however, have a web of connections in which drugs are the fuel, blood is the cost, and geopolitics provides the framework that