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Terrorism comes in two flavors: you have small groups where a pure assassination strikes can work (e.g. Bin Laden) and larger groups backed by an actual social faction (e.g. the Taliban, Hamas, ISIS), where they don’t.

The Somali pirates fall into the latter territory: desperately poor people with a dysfunctional national government see money floating by daily. You can’t bomb that dynamic out of existence unless you’re willing to commit mass murder or occupy the territory and make a Marshall Plan-level investment in the local society.