Tag: Pirates
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Pirates, Poachers and Palm Oil
With just under two weeks to go, I need your support to bring “Pirates, Poachers and Palm Oil” to life!
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Challenging Pirates in Tempestuous Seas
In keeping with the “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” argument, most countries have a non-engagement policy with pirates: paying a ransom is seen to incentivize the illegal activity — to give rise to a new wave of open-sea scoundrels eager to exploit the lucrative shadow world of transnational crime. But as the tactics used by…
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Silent in Somalia
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking at the changing footprint of American forces in the Horn of Africa. The piece, hopefully completed by the end of the month, will tackle questions of Africom’s [Africa Command] future (a topic oft-ignored in the discussion of Obama’s drone warfare in a increasingly hostile Middle East) and…
Adam McCauley 