5th Fleet Focus: Somalia Piracy Map

The United Nations has released a new map on Somalia piracy, and we find it very interesting. It is from the fall time frame of last year, and offers an interesting perspective on where pirate attacks are taking place. I'm sure gamers would agree, this as an excellent open source tactical map for building anti-piracy simulations. You can download a PDF copy here.

Click the picture for high resolution, it is a bit larger than half a MB, so be aware. As we noted in our last Order of Battle, there are a lot of European warships in the TF150 AOR right now. In observing, one gets the impression the international community is slowly building up for something. The last few months have seen a rather large increase in naval contributions from both European and Asian nations, and there appears to be even more including a major contribution from Canada coming in the future.

HT Chris Albon