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Originally Posted by einherjar
The taskforce stress that they act as a deterrent and are focusing their patrolling on narrow corridors in the Gulf of Aden. But the brazen theft of the Saldanha just 60 miles (97km) from the Northumberland on Sunday illustrates the inevitable weaknesses that still exist when a handful of warships attempt to cover a million square miles of water.
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Basic misunderstanding of the mission.
You don't have to cover a million square miles of water.
You just have to cover the few that the ships are in, or the even fewer that the pirates are in.
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