We have the best equipment in the world inspecting for mines,” hinting that Iran had already deployed in the main channel about 80 of its estimated 6,000 mines. “Most of their ships are down at the ...

Minefield objectives that could inform U.S. planning are listed in the Barriers, Obstacles, and Mine Warfare for Joint Operations, Joint Publication 3-15: Disrupt: A minefield is used to alter enemy ...

The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis exposes the inadequacy of some classical geopolitical frameworks. Alfred Thayer Mahan’s sea ...

The Strait of Hormuz is arguably the most consequential chokepoint in the global economy. Barely thirty kilometers wide at ...

Iran has also fired on and damaged merchant shipping attempting to run the gauntlet. In early May, as many as 2,000 merchant ...

Iran War Topic Week. By Ehud Eiran. The joint military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on ...

It did so not because it trusted Moscow, but because the closure of Hormuz had rendered its own sanctions architecture ...

In the Middle Eastern theater, Iran exercises strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz through the employment of Unmanned ...

The Trump administration responded with an instrument no prior administration deployed at scale. The $40 billion DFC-Chubb ...

Most analysis of the U.S.-Iran maritime war will focus on carrier strike group positioning, IRGC small-boat tactics, Marine Corps Stand-in Forces, and the operational lessons of contested chokepoints.

The joint military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, 2026, was initially conceived and executed primarily as an air campaign. The opening phase of the war ...

The strait was open when the campaign began; Iran closed it in response to the strikes, and the commerce the United States sought to protect collapsed. But the war was fought, and fighting it taught ...