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Navy Initiates Reforms
Ministry of Defense Announces Reinstitution of Privateering and Issues Ship Construction Order to KalMilInCo
February 15, 4703

Kaliburg National Shipyards

Following months of debate and voting, the National Assembly has recently passed a bill which would allow the Ministry of Defense to once again issue Letters of Marque to private Kalistani citizens. Titled simply Authorization of Privateering, the bill would allow the Ministry of Defense to authorize and award privateers for targeting enemy ships in the Northern Ananto Sea during times of instability between Kalistan and foreign nations.

Allowing and rewarding privateering against enemies of Kalistan has long been a Kalistani military tradition, which exists to give the Kalistani Navy an advantage against comparatively larger foreign forces through motivating privateers to strike against foreign commercial and logistics vessels as well as to allow private Kalistanis to defend Kalistan's sovereignty over the Ananto Straights. However, this policy has long been mothballed and hasn't been used since 4520 when RSMoK sailors sunk three Kazulian ships traversing through the Straights.

The bill would allow all Kalistani citizens who have gone through the application and inspection process and have been issued a Letter of Marque from the Ministry of Defense to commit acts of privateering in a specified area in the Northern Ananto Sea. All acts of privateering, however, will be limited to the military and commercial vessels of nations determined to be "enemies of Kalistan," while vessels of friendly nations as well as all civilian non-commercial vessels will be strictly prohibited.

In addition to reauthorizing privateering, the Ministry of Defense has also placed an order for new warships with the newly renationalized KalMilInCo. The order, which has been publicized by the Ministry of Defense, will see the construction of four Kaliburg-Class destroyers, four Victor-Class attack submarines, and six Sativa-Class submarines. Once construction of all ships has been completed, they will be split evenly between the Second and Third Fleets and be stationed at Port Sweedes and Yoshimi Station. When asked why the First Fleet would be receiving no vessels from this order, Defense Minister Gen. Omar Stimson replied: "At the current time, we must focus on increasing our capabilities in the Straights. With foreign navies now permitted to move through them freely, we must assert our defensive abilities in the Straights and improve our patrol strength. In the future, the Defense Ministry does plan on giving our boys in Bozo the attention they deserve, but right now we need to focus on the Straights."