Methods for combating modern piracy......

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Originally Posted by August

I'd think it would likely be prohibitively expensive to put a security team that was big enough and well armed enough to do the job on each and every ship.

No one is paying to have them on every ship.
You, the ship owner are paying to have them on your ship, if you want them.
If the cost of security outweighs the risk of losing your ship, then you don't
need security.

Besides, I doubt tax-funded missile cruisers, helicopters and marines are
much cheaper to say the least.