“We built this incredibly complex end-to-end model from seed planting down in South America through the changing to a product at a wholesale level, the transportation across myriad modes of transportation, ultimately into warehouses in the United States of America,” McBride said. Yet the more DARPA modeled the problem, the worse it looked. If one cartel was defeated, it ended up just strengthening another cartel. Like the Greek Hydra, if you cut off one head, two more rose in its place. DARPA came up with answers, but the answers did not fit what the White House wanted.
