'Asymmetrical' warfare not new for U.S. Navy

Saturday, April 11, 2009

NEW YORK -- Not for the first time, a powerful U.S. naval fleet designed for all-out war must find a way to swat belligerent mosquitoes -- in this case, pirates holding hostage the captain of a container ship in a lifeboat off the African coast.

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