If innocents aboard drove ROE (they do, now, clearly), then the US subs in the PTO would have had to let most every jap ship go on its merry way. As it was, US submarines killed many thousands of POWs over the course of the war.
If we send boarding parties to clear each ship, then people will get killed who shouldn't (our guys, and possibly hostages, too). Maybe the new normal needs to be the assumption that hostages are already dead and make being a pirate FAR more dangerous than it is now.
What would the mothership do if we pulled nearby, and told them to heave to and be boarded, or we sink the ship, then churn the water like it was the Battle of the Bismarck Sea?
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