The USS Peleliu (LHA 5) has assisted is driving off a pirate attack. AP has a short report.The Navy says the suspected pirate ships fled the scene after the USS Peleliu launched three helicopters. The Navy says one grenade landed on the Gem of Kilakari's bridge wing but didn't explode, and no injuries were reported.We highlighted two weeks ago that the US Navy was sending ships to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden. The presence of the USS Peleliu (LHA 5) would certainly give credibility to that report. Three things come to mind here.
1) The Royal Navy didn't stomp out piracy in the 19th century by scaring pirates to death.
2) Is the rule of law evolving or devolving when the RoE factors a moral consideration towards pirates?
3) If the USS Peleliu (LHA 5) is in the Gulf of Aden, and the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) is in the Indian Ocean supporting operations in Afghanistan, then that means for the first time in many years there are no high value units in the Persian Gulf. Legitimate question, does that make you feel safer, or not? That is a complicated question when factoring in all the variables.
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