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US military researchers call for use of privateers against China
The United States should encourage the use of privateers to fight Chinese aggression at sea, according to a pair of articles in magazine produced by the US Naval Institute.
The reports – titled “Unleash the Privateers!” and “US Privateering Is Legal”, and published in the April issue of Proceedings – suggest the US government issue letters of marque – a commission authorising privately owned ships (privateers) to capture enemy merchant ships.
The authors – Mark Cancian, a retired US Marine Corps colonel and senior adviser at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Brandon Schwartz, a former CSIS media relations manager – said that China’s larger merchant fleet represented an asymmetric vulnerability with the US, and an attack on China’s global trade would undermine its entire economy and threaten its stability.
Such a campaign would be a legal and low-cost way to contain China’s power rise on the sea, they said, adding that it could prevent, rather than provoke, a war.
Privateering with a letter of marque dates back to a period from the mid-16th to the 18th century known as the Age of Sail, but was outlawed with the introduction of various treaties in the 19th and 20th centuries.
However, the authors of the Proceedings reports said that the US government never formally signed any agreements, and argued that the US Constitution gave Congress the power to “grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal”.
https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/mil...researchers-call-use-privateers-against-china
about the US naval institute:-
Established in 1873, the Naval Institute currently has about 50,000 members, mostly active and retired personnel of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The organization also has members in over 90 countries.
The organization has no official or funding ties to the United States Naval Academy or the U.S. Navy, although it is based on the grounds of the Naval Academy through permission granted by a 1936 Act of Congress.
notable former & current members of the institute:-
that is why I always say China needs to build many more dozens of destroyers to accompany merchant ships, so that such idiotic suggestions from these "researchers" & "think tanks" never even reach the white house, to prevent incedents like what happened between Britain & Iran for example from happening to China, so that if any hostile ship tells a Chinese merchant vessel "you will be seized for violating US sanctions" the merchant vessel would respond "how about you have a little chat with the type 052D accompanying us".
The United States should encourage the use of privateers to fight Chinese aggression at sea, according to a pair of articles in magazine produced by the US Naval Institute.
The reports – titled “Unleash the Privateers!” and “US Privateering Is Legal”, and published in the April issue of Proceedings – suggest the US government issue letters of marque – a commission authorising privately owned ships (privateers) to capture enemy merchant ships.
The authors – Mark Cancian, a retired US Marine Corps colonel and senior adviser at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Brandon Schwartz, a former CSIS media relations manager – said that China’s larger merchant fleet represented an asymmetric vulnerability with the US, and an attack on China’s global trade would undermine its entire economy and threaten its stability.
Such a campaign would be a legal and low-cost way to contain China’s power rise on the sea, they said, adding that it could prevent, rather than provoke, a war.
Privateering with a letter of marque dates back to a period from the mid-16th to the 18th century known as the Age of Sail, but was outlawed with the introduction of various treaties in the 19th and 20th centuries.
However, the authors of the Proceedings reports said that the US government never formally signed any agreements, and argued that the US Constitution gave Congress the power to “grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal”.
https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/mil...researchers-call-use-privateers-against-china
about the US naval institute:-
Established in 1873, the Naval Institute currently has about 50,000 members, mostly active and retired personnel of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The organization also has members in over 90 countries.
The organization has no official or funding ties to the United States Naval Academy or the U.S. Navy, although it is based on the grounds of the Naval Academy through permission granted by a 1936 Act of Congress.
notable former & current members of the institute:-
- Thomas Edison, inventor and businessman[4]
- William Halsey Jr., fleet admiral
- John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy
- John A. Lejeune, marine lieutenant general
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, naval flag officer, geostrategist, and historian
- Chester W. Nimitz, fleet admiral[4]
- Colin Powell, statesman and a retired army general
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
that is why I always say China needs to build many more dozens of destroyers to accompany merchant ships, so that such idiotic suggestions from these "researchers" & "think tanks" never even reach the white house, to prevent incedents like what happened between Britain & Iran for example from happening to China, so that if any hostile ship tells a Chinese merchant vessel "you will be seized for violating US sanctions" the merchant vessel would respond "how about you have a little chat with the type 052D accompanying us".
