Somalia Piracy on the High Seas - What Does the Future Look Like?
Reading the crystal ball or the proverbial tea leaves is a little harder to do in an ever changing global world, and yet, as a Futurist and a Think Tank coordinator I have to try.
It's a tough responsibility, requiring 10s of hours a day of information uptake, analyzing, writing, and re-considering variables.
Someday, I suppose an AI computer software program may do all this for humans, and yet, that would be in the future, and today we live in the present, so there is no time to rest my mind just yet.
Not long ago, another semi-serious geo-political analyst asked me if I thought piracy on the high-seas would get worse in the years ahead? Well, we are headed for some challenges in the Gulf of Aden, but really, those challenges as they come to fruition will leave us no choice but to act, and act in a big way.
The law of the sea may need to be re-written and some nations are now allowing ships flying under their flag to arm themselves, Britain is one of them.
Does that mean other foreign ships may temporarily fly their flag while transversing those waters known to pirates, or terrorists acting as pirates to get the funds to carry out their devilish deeds? I believe that is one thing which will happen.
I also believe that we need to hold trial on military warships when we catch pirates and return them to the sea as fish food, but hey, that's just my opinion.
Now then what about the future you ask? Well, here are some thoughts; It is my humble opinion that piracy will be non-existent in 8-years, literally unheard of in the future in that region.
We can see to that, there is a wide-spread agreement there, it's actually a real positive way for all the nations to come together in a common cause and calm the challenges not only in Somalia, but throughout that side of Africa or off the coast for a good 450 miles.
Why? Because finally, the Navies of the world and the shipping industry is getting tired of it, and has decided they've had enough.
These companies are tired of harassment, lost vessels, paying ransoms, and the cost of doing business with pirates toting guns is taking its toll, now they have to arm themselves, bring on security, and that severely increases the cost.
We must maintain our shipping lanes, and this is the twenty-first century, it's time to come together and get busy and take out the pirates, I believe that is happening now.
It's a tough responsibility, requiring 10s of hours a day of information uptake, analyzing, writing, and re-considering variables.
Someday, I suppose an AI computer software program may do all this for humans, and yet, that would be in the future, and today we live in the present, so there is no time to rest my mind just yet.
Not long ago, another semi-serious geo-political analyst asked me if I thought piracy on the high-seas would get worse in the years ahead? Well, we are headed for some challenges in the Gulf of Aden, but really, those challenges as they come to fruition will leave us no choice but to act, and act in a big way.
The law of the sea may need to be re-written and some nations are now allowing ships flying under their flag to arm themselves, Britain is one of them.
Does that mean other foreign ships may temporarily fly their flag while transversing those waters known to pirates, or terrorists acting as pirates to get the funds to carry out their devilish deeds? I believe that is one thing which will happen.
I also believe that we need to hold trial on military warships when we catch pirates and return them to the sea as fish food, but hey, that's just my opinion.
Now then what about the future you ask? Well, here are some thoughts; It is my humble opinion that piracy will be non-existent in 8-years, literally unheard of in the future in that region.
We can see to that, there is a wide-spread agreement there, it's actually a real positive way for all the nations to come together in a common cause and calm the challenges not only in Somalia, but throughout that side of Africa or off the coast for a good 450 miles.
Why? Because finally, the Navies of the world and the shipping industry is getting tired of it, and has decided they've had enough.
These companies are tired of harassment, lost vessels, paying ransoms, and the cost of doing business with pirates toting guns is taking its toll, now they have to arm themselves, bring on security, and that severely increases the cost.
We must maintain our shipping lanes, and this is the twenty-first century, it's time to come together and get busy and take out the pirates, I believe that is happening now.