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A 2019 framework agreement expanded American military access to Omani facilities at Salalah and Duqm. Oman controls the southern side of the strait, which...
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Dollars and Sense
Hegseth says the Navy can hold the blockade indefinitely by rotating ships. Two vessels crossed the strait on Friday, though the count is imprecise...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A senator's letter to the Pentagon raises water contamination, plumbing failures and mail that never arrives, and asks whether the Navy can sustain this...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Hill, Reuters, and the Times detail a US munitions shortage the administration publicly denies — the Army's surface-to-surface stocks 'virtually all' gone, defensive-missile...
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A US MH-60 put two Hellfires into the steering gear of the Panama-flagged Vela Nova as it tried to run the Hormuz blockade —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The US Navy decommissioned USS Fort Worth at Naval Base San Diego on 29 July 2026, nearly 14 years after commissioning — about 56...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Dr. Robert E. Kelly argues the Iran war has exposed the limits of America's exquisite-weapons model, with stockpile depletion now shaping Trump's escalation choices....
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Brandon J. Weichert writes that Oman has offered a new paradigm for the Strait of Hormuz: inbound ships use Iran's route, outbound ships use...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A new study warns that more than fifteen hundred ships sitting idle near the Strait of Hormuz are accumulating marine growth that could spread...