Somalia’s piracy problem is too big, spread over too large an area, and rooted in conditions too deep for any seaborne military solution. The only lasting solutions will play out on land, on seething urban battlefields and at tense negotiating tables, over years or even decades. That is, if they occur at all. And in the meantime, pirates are putting the squeeze on shipping and regional humanitarian campaigns.
We perhaps are seeing only the early skirmishes in a long piracy war.
Read the whole analysis at World Politics Review.
(Photo: Navy)
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