Maersk hires Tanzanian Mercenary warship as pirate situation becomes ‘critical’
Much about international politics, conflict, and war can be gleaned by from looking at a map. Yemen is certainly in the news lately. And is strategically placed as well. Military bases there could control the Gulf of Aden and be used to launch attacks against pirates [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Somalia’
Major shipper hires mercenaries to defend against Somali pirates
Somali piracy as systempunkt
Global Guerrillas on systempunkt
In global guerrilla warfare (a combination of open source innovation, bazaar transactions, and low tech weapons), the point of greatest emphasis is called a systempunkt. It is the point point in a system (either an infrastructure or a market), always identified by autonomous groups within the bazaar, where a swarm of small [...]
