tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438008.post6671833482001365070..comments2024-03-27T06:40:56.148-04:00Comments on EagleSpeak: Somali Pirates: Disable pirate "motherships?"Mark Tempesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18172703868541571574noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438008.post-36699109384682766412011-04-03T18:35:14.060-04:002011-04-03T18:35:14.060-04:00Bottom line.
The more ships and even greater, the...Bottom line.<br /><br />The more ships and even greater, the more CREWS the pirates hold hostage the bigger the problem.<br /><br />Hostages should not want to be in good company.<br /><br />Harsh measures risk the crews already held to pirate retaliation. Soft measures enable the pirates to collect more crews leverage the threats to crew’s lives to gain power over all. <br /><br />No one wants to be the crew already held captive. But almost as certain is that other crews out there don't want to join the former set because no one wanted to risk rescuing the crews already held in the first place.<br /><br />Soft measures put MORE crews at risk and GROW the problem.<br />Harsh measures risk the crews already in captivity who's lives, sadly are as far as the pirates are concerned, already discounted that's why they take them hostages in the first place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438008.post-67726360097422551882011-03-29T11:40:59.420-04:002011-03-29T11:40:59.420-04:00You can certainly disable a merchan PAG vessel at ...You can certainly disable a merchan PAG vessel at sea but what is the blowback going to be? Pirates with their backs to the wall are likely to do something irrational, so you cannot count on the same endstate "I'll take the offer to leave peacefully".<br /><br />Disabling vessels already in an anchorage makes more sense; that prevents them from being used over and over as PAG platforms. But you have to do it in a way that the ship can leave when the drama is over. Finally, given enough time (4-5 mths) the intakes clog themselves.Tyler Durdenhttp://kaispace.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/fctyler2.jpg?w=300&h=185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438008.post-4121403022274338132011-03-28T20:50:44.623-04:002011-03-28T20:50:44.623-04:00There is also the option of sending SEALs into the...There is also the option of sending SEALs into the ports to disable ships already taken than may be used as mother ships. Damage propeller or rudder or perhaps just clog cooling intakes.Chuck Hillnoreply@blogger.com