The army also has destroyed smuggling tunnels leading into Gaza, which is controlled by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, an ally of Egypt's deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
Sri Lanka's navy benefited from intelligence collected by India, an ally, to identify and intercept or destroy boats smuggling light weapons to the Tigers' bastion in the country's north-east.
EU leaders will also discuss ideas including trying to capture or destroy people-smuggling boats.
When the Israelis were bombing near Rafah to try to destroy the many smuggling tunnels that run between the Egyptian and Gazan side of the once-unified city, "we were almost knocked out by the noise," said his friend, Khaled Kamal, 25, a postman.
With American help, they have proved adept at such tasks as capturing Taliban leaders, rescuing hostages and destroying drug-smuggling rings.
Houghteling's own "Pictures at an Exhibition" was also written for lost paintings: it tells the story of the art looted from Parisian galleries and museums under Nazi occupation, much of it subsequently destroyed or smuggled out of France.
Leaked documents out of the EU show proposals for a "military operation" to "seek and destroy" boats and "disrupt the migrants smuggling business model".
A good start would be using air attacks to destroy drug convoys carrying opium on smuggling trails toward the Pakistani border, using the same infrared technology employed along the Mexican border to avoid hitting civilian vehicles.
The prosecutor said: "He came to Indonesia and acted in a manner that would destroy the future of the nation, by smuggling a large quantity of heroin for sale … and should be sentenced to death".
Olmert told me that his Gaza operation was an attempt to change the strategic dynamic, to retake the southern Philadelphi corridor — the strip of land between Gaza and Egypt — and destroy the tunnels that Hamas uses to smuggle missiles (or their components).
