Articles to read today: Counter Piracy and a great Weekly Update

I haven't had time today to read through these documents in their entirety but rest assured they are important ones!

Weekly Africa Update  This is a 73 page document that has AWESOME articles that you most likely won’t find anywhere else!  A gentlemen here in the PGON puts it together every week and sends it out.  If you contact me directly I can put you in touch with him to get on his distro.  Even after I leave here, I plan on remaining on it because it’s such an incredible source. 

Maritime Security: Updating U.S. Counterpiracy Action Plan Gains Urgency as Piracy Escalates off the Horn of Africa

From the link you can download the 25 page report.  Of note, the last time our CP plan was updated was in 2008. 

U.S. Approaches to Counter-Piracy

remarks by Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs,

Remarks to International Institute for Strategic Studies/March 30, 2011

I wasn’t too impressed with his knowledge of our military in past meetings/talks but an important read nonetheless.