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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Unbalanced warfare not new for US Navy

Wasp-class amphibious assault shipNot for the first time, a powerful U.S. naval fleet designed for all-out war must find a way to swat belligerent mosquitoes — in this case, pirates holding hostage the captain of a container ship in a lifeboat off the African coast.

The frustrating situation, what military experts call "asymmetrical warfare," has echoes dating back two centuries.

In 1804, U.S. Navy Commodore Stephen Decatur battled the infamous Barbary pirates off the northern coast of that same continent. Those pirates were demanding tribute from American vessels, and Decatur's solution was to dispatch U.S. Marines to the shores of Tripoli.

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