Major shipper hires mercenaries to defend against Somali pirates

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 [...]

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 [...]