I favor the same solutions that worked against the Barbary pirates by our young Navy and against the pirates in the Americas by the Royal Navy. Broadsides, sabers, the noose. Dresden-like economic sanctions might work too.
Agree. It was such a frustration to play whack-a-mole games all day instead of taking decisive action against the pirates. We flew into Djibouti a few times for parts and pax transfers. I thought East Texas was hot. lol
My S-i-L's SeaBee Batt. deployed to Djibouti. He was happy to get peeled away from that when he was assigned a small Det. that redeployed to rural Uganda to dig wells and build roads. I have heard that Djibouti is like Haiti but without the humidity.
But it’s a government program, the goal to program it not to solve it, fighting just enough provided a foil, which so far is all we GWOT-ers did..
We were made of sterner stuff in the early 19th century.
Management of a problem instead of solutions did nothing to eradicate the pirate issue.
I favor the same solutions that worked against the Barbary pirates by our young Navy and against the pirates in the Americas by the Royal Navy. Broadsides, sabers, the noose. Dresden-like economic sanctions might work too.
Agree. It was such a frustration to play whack-a-mole games all day instead of taking decisive action against the pirates. We flew into Djibouti a few times for parts and pax transfers. I thought East Texas was hot. lol
My S-i-L's SeaBee Batt. deployed to Djibouti. He was happy to get peeled away from that when he was assigned a small Det. that redeployed to rural Uganda to dig wells and build roads. I have heard that Djibouti is like Haiti but without the humidity.