Sickening to see the continued abuse of spec ops men. Hit that well identified boat with the 5 inch gun and be done with it.
The abuse of spec ops men continues. We use them because we do not have the stomach for normal operations.
Other articles state they boarded without issue, detained 12 men, and sunk the pirate ship.
Someone is absolutely lying, we just don’t know who.
Its my opinion the US Military is a bureaucratic, politicized mess. It has a fantastic elite of spec ops troops, with incomparable intelligence, surveillance and recon. They've gained great experience, playing world-cop and riding herd against small nations. THIS is the face of the US military.
But Russia/Ukraine has showed us - we do not lead in basic stuff like 155mm shells or artillery.
And it all comes at a huge cost. Much of the US military is a super-expensive, bloated, politicized government bureaucracy, with all the problems you get from any govt bureaucracy.
LOL, you can’t just sink cargoships for no reason, you have to board them to determine if they are doing anything wrong.