Cooper was careful on Monday to redefine the nature of the US operation. There are no ship-by-ship “escorts,” he said — rather, the U.S. has assembled “multiple layers” of defenses, including ships, helicopters, aircraft, airborne early warning and electronic warfare. “I think we have a much better defense in this process,” he said. The difference matters to insurers: the value of a layered defensive perimeter is tighter than that of a designated ship convoy, and the legal and underwriting implications of ships operating inside a US-defined “enhanced security zone” without a formal escort remain untested.
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