A year after Somali piracy peaked with more than 100 ships attacked, the world’s navies have assembled dozens of warships to combat the threat. David Axe joins the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Donald Cook in Djibouti, to observe firsthand this “global war on piracy.”
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by DAVID AXE
Sailors from Donald Cook board a suspected pirate boat on the Gulf of Aden in September 2009. The boat turned out to be a fishing vessel.
(Video: Navy)
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