$3 Million would buy lots of napalm. Napalm some surrounding villages, and promise that those villages were just the downpayment if all the sailors aren’t immediately released.
Why ANYONE puts up with piracy in modern times of satelite tracking, drones and the ability to wage war without risking a single soldier - especially against a country like Somalia - it utterly lost on me.
If Somalia is incapable of managing their population; then it is the duty of other nations in the area to protect themselves and help the authorities in Somalia by decimiating those areas where piracy exists.
You don’t win wars with drones just like you don’t win wars with napalm. You win wars by controlling territory and having a strong leadership behind the soldiers on the front lines.
We have neither of that.
We could have sent more than 1,000 drones and it would have just agtagonize the population even more.