The U.S. government has recently moved toward privatizing military services, most noticeably in Iraq, where profit-seeking contractors frequently engage in combat against insurgents. Many observers are shocked and disturbed by these developments, since they violate the governmental monopoly on military combat, which is probably the most accepted and intuitive aspect of the public-private distinction in America today. In fact, however, exclusive governmental control of combat is not an inherent nor even a particularly old part of the American experience. For much of U.S. history, one of the most important options in the nation\u27s military repertoire was the use of privateers, that is, privately owned and operated ships, licensed to forcibl...
Despite their importance to the maritime war effort, American privateers and letter-of-marques are o...
The important topic of loyalist privateering during the American Revolution has remained unaddressed...
Through the capture and sale of prizes in both the Caribbean and Europe, American privateers forced ...
The U.S. government has recently moved toward privatizing military services, most noticeably in Iraq...
This article assess the general effectiveness of privateers (as understood by their contemporaries) ...
Lacking sufficient funds to build and maintain a sizeable navy, the young United States was forced t...
The declaration of war in June of 1812 brought more questions than it did answers for the United Sta...
The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate the vital importance of American privateers during the ear...
The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate the vital importance of American privateers during the ear...
The American declaration of war passed by Congress in June 1812 was followed by a prize act which au...
Through the lens provided by judicial, statutory, and social records from the first half of the 19th...
In the Revolutionary War, the Americans had no means to combat the naval supremacy of the British Ro...
All major combatants of the American Revolutionary War (1776-1783) deployed privateers to disrupt sh...
The important topic of loyalist privateering during the American Revolution has remained unaddressed...
When the wars for independence started in the Spanish colonies on the American continent, the United...
Despite their importance to the maritime war effort, American privateers and letter-of-marques are o...
The important topic of loyalist privateering during the American Revolution has remained unaddressed...
Through the capture and sale of prizes in both the Caribbean and Europe, American privateers forced ...
The U.S. government has recently moved toward privatizing military services, most noticeably in Iraq...
This article assess the general effectiveness of privateers (as understood by their contemporaries) ...
Lacking sufficient funds to build and maintain a sizeable navy, the young United States was forced t...
The declaration of war in June of 1812 brought more questions than it did answers for the United Sta...
The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate the vital importance of American privateers during the ear...
The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate the vital importance of American privateers during the ear...
The American declaration of war passed by Congress in June 1812 was followed by a prize act which au...
Through the lens provided by judicial, statutory, and social records from the first half of the 19th...
In the Revolutionary War, the Americans had no means to combat the naval supremacy of the British Ro...
All major combatants of the American Revolutionary War (1776-1783) deployed privateers to disrupt sh...
The important topic of loyalist privateering during the American Revolution has remained unaddressed...
When the wars for independence started in the Spanish colonies on the American continent, the United...
Despite their importance to the maritime war effort, American privateers and letter-of-marques are o...
The important topic of loyalist privateering during the American Revolution has remained unaddressed...
Through the capture and sale of prizes in both the Caribbean and Europe, American privateers forced ...