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In the past, the most effective means of ending piracy was to destroy their base of operations.
At the end of his presidency in 1992 President George H.W. Bush deployed U.S. troops to Somalia as part of a United Nations operation that ended in di...
The pirates seem to understand that their defense does not only depend on arms. They clearly understand the worth of good PR.
We have to do something about our current situation. We're spending more and more on defense and purchasing less and less security for it.
Palin is one-person reiteration of everything from "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" (early round dismissal?) up through and including "Survivor."
The pirate game has changed since the days of Blackbeard -- the new generation of privateers would likely consist of maritime private security forces, like Miami's McRoberts Maritime Security.
At the News Xchange international broadcast conference... I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography.
The most serious threat to our security, that of our allies, and to world peace, is very widely agreed to be that of terrorists getting their hands on a ready-made nuclear weapon.
It is time to define who the enemies in this "war," who the agents of economic terrorism actually are.
They are 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and cute little Johnny Depps they are not. This year alone, brazen Somali pirates have attacked 95 vessels. The corsairs still hold 16 ships and up to 300 sailors.
For the first time ever, an unguarded Saudi oil tanker displacing 318,000 tons (the size of a small island), sailing off the Kenyan coast, was picked off by a band of pirates operating a motorized dinghy.
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden might seem like a pebble dropping, but the ripples may be felt everywhere.
Captain Paul Watson and crew sail about, seeking out the whaling ships, which they follow and harass in hopes of saving whales from what they believe is needless, illegal killing for commercial purposes.
I do understand why folks have always had a fascination with pirates but my problem with Disney and other mass marketers is that they have attempted to make pirates cute and cuddly.
Somaili pirates who stunned the world by seizing a Ukrainian ship announced today that they would take a brief hiatus from terrorizing the high seas out of respect for the Jewish holidays.
Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, in case you hadn't noticed. Everyone's getting into the act... but no one could compete with the pirate-talk of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.
