Overflight, Overflight, Overflight - The Missing Component To Combatting Piracy
Since World War II air dominance has played a critical role in successful military operations, are anti-piracy ops any different?
gCaptain has been interviewed by several news organizations in the past week and the number one question that is asked “What is needed to end piracy in Somalia?”. The best answer for this is dealing with the problem ashore, from economic support to a military invasion, the most effective way to combat piracy is to solve the problem at it’s source.
For reasons we don’t need to explain this solution has the highest number of negative correlations and seems unlikely to be popular with world leaders and the military alike. This leaves us with at-sea solutions, the most effective of which is armed security and training of crews but, again, this solution has a high number of negative possible outcomes including costs, logistics and the potential escalation of violence by the pirates.
Today the Associated Press called gCaptain and asked a slightly more pointed quest