Pirate Update

Russia is now joining the fight against Somali pirates. Since they are sending warships and not nuclear subs(which they don't have a great record of safety with) they should be fairly effective. As I implied in an earlier post, I'm not sure why countries which don't fight wars often aren't jumping at the chance to get their troops some cheap experience. The US, while in possession of far and away the largest military in the world, has more combat experience than it wants. Russia has arguable the same amount of experience in it's military. One would think emerging powers, or countries that may face conflict would want at least some veterans with combat experience, something that cannot be taught. Indeed, this may play a role in why India was the first to sink a pirate ship recently.