The US Navy isn't special for privacy prevention. The things that make it special, carriers, Marines, and submarines, don't help with piracy. Without those, it

The US Navy isn't special for privacy prevention. The things that make it special, carriers, Marines, and submarines, don't help with piracy. Without those, it is a large (but not the largest) navy. It is missing smaller ships that are most useful. For the Malacca Strait, the most important navies are Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. They could all police it together now, and with the some cooperation and improvement could each do it separately.