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With Hormuz in the spotlight, the Navy can do better - Breaking Defense (opens the original)
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The Strait of Hormuz remains mostly closed — US Central Command protestations notwithstanding — with traffic running at about 10 percent of prewar levels. That strategic fact pushed President Donald Trump to rescind orders for what he described as a massive military strike amid talks to fully reopen the key waterway. In a recent op-ed in these pages, Stephen Wills argues in response to an opinion piece of my own that this is not a Navy failure. While I greatly respect Wills’ expertise on naval a
With Hormuz in the spotlight, the Navy can do better (opens the original)
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CSIS’s Mark Cancian responds to a recent op-ed in Breaking Defense about the relative standstill at the strait.
A naval failure in the Strait of Hormuz - Breaking Defense (opens the original)
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The collapse of negotiations between the US and Iran can be traced to a single point of failure: the inability of the US military to keep the Strait of Hormuz open in the face of Iranian opposition. The challenge has been long anticipated. The Navy has been thinking about it for 45 years, ever since it escorted tankers through the Persian Gulf in the 1980s and successfully thwarted Iranian efforts to control traffic. As a junior Marine officer, I participated in amphibious planning exercises to
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