Interesting point. Especially when you consider that there were ‘letters of mark’ which allowed privately owned WARSHIPS to be used for US government purposes. Not a bad idea really.
“Interesting point. Especially when you consider that there were ‘letters of mark’ which allowed privately owned WARSHIPS to be used for US government purposes. Not a bad idea really.”
Not trying to be snarky, but I think those were “letters of MARQUE”, or something like that.