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Iran Just Declared Hormuz “Belongs to Us” — and That Anyone Who Fails to Understand Will “End Up at the Bottom”

Oil has climbed sharply since hostilities resumed on July 7, and the water tells the story better than the price does. CENTCOM insists Hormuz...

Steve Balestrieri4 days ago

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), while participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, fires the first naval strike missile from a U.S. destroyer July 18. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jordan Jennings)

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The Regime Decentralized to Survive — and Now Iran No Longer Speaks With One Voice or Answers to a Single Commander

More than ten days into the renewed fighting, Iran faces three strategic paths over the Strait of Hormuz, according to a BBC assessment: settle...

Brandon Weichert4 days ago

U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Combat Drill. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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An Oil Tanker Bound for China Made a Complete U-Turn at the Yemen Border — and Five More Have Already Changed Course

The Iran-backed Houthis have declared a naval blockade of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a passage just fourteen miles wide that Saudi Arabia depends on...

Isaac Seitz4 days ago

Maj. Paul Lopez, F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team commander, performs during the Chicago Air and Water Show, Aug. 17, 2019. Founded in 2007, the F-22 Demo Team showcases the unique capabilities of the world's premier fifth-generation fighter aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Samuel Eckholm)

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The World’s Richest Oil States Cannot Buy Fresh Water — They Burn Energy to Make It, and Iran Is Hitting Those Plants

Tens of millions in the Gulf drink water that comes out of a machine. Those machines are being hit, and they are slow and...

Stephen Silver4 days ago

A B-2 Spirit gets ready to taxi out for Red Flag-Nellis 24-1 mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Jan. 16, 2024. This Red Flag provides complex realistic scenarios concentrated on warfighting in the Indo-Pacific theater. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Brianna Vetro)

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Trump Says Every Iranian Attack on a Ship Will Cost Tehran a Bridge or a Power Plant — and Iran Alone Picks When It Starts

Trump has set a price on every Iranian attack at sea: one bridge or one power plant, Tehran included. It removes all doubt about...

Harry J. Kazianis4 days ago

Dollars and Sense

Saudi Arabia Shifted Millions of Barrels to Its Red Sea Port to Slip Around Hormuz — Now Houthi Missiles Can Reach It There

The United States has concentrated more than twenty warships and several hundred aircraft in the Middle East to fight Iran and protect traffic through...

Harry J. Kazianis4 days ago

Putin in June 2016 Image Credit Russian Federation Photo

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Something Is Quietly Breaking Inside Russia — an Analyst Argues Kyiv’s Drone War Has Sparked a Nationwide Fuel Crisis

A sustained Ukrainian drone campaign against Russia's refineries has grown into a nationwide fuel crisis, one analyst argues, with gasoline output down to sixty-five...

Brandon Weichert5 days ago

(Aug. 8, 2017) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) at sea during exercise Saxon Warrior 2017, Aug. 8. Saxon Warrior is a United States and United Kingdom co-hosted carrier strike group exercise that demonstrates allied interoperability and capability to respond to crises and deter potential threats. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Theron J. Godbold /Released)

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The Houthis Are Blockading Saudi Arabia — and the U.S. Now Fears It Lacks the Missiles to Fight Iran and Yemen at Once

Iran's Houthi allies in Yemen have declared a naval blockade on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait against Saudi Arabia, threatening a second oil chokepoint alongside...

Isaac Seitz5 days ago

The guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) steams behind the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the Persian Gulf on Jan. 31, 2006. The Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is conducting maritime security operations in the Persian Gulf.

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Iran Is Now Striking Tankers off the Oman Coast as the Strait of Hormuz Empties Out — and Only the Bravest Ships Still Dare to Cross

Tanker and gas-carrier traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen sharply — from roughly 90 crossings to 30, by one count — as...

Isaac Seitz5 days ago

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Dollars and Sense

Iran Just Declared Hormuz “Belongs to Us” — and That Anyone Who Fails to Understand Will “End Up at the Bottom”

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

The Regime Decentralized to Survive — and Now Iran No Longer Speaks With One Voice or Answers to a Single Commander

Dollars and Sense

An Oil Tanker Bound for China Made a Complete U-Turn at the Yemen Border — and Five More Have Already Changed Course

Dollars and Sense

The World’s Richest Oil States Cannot Buy Fresh Water — They Burn Energy to Make It, and Iran Is Hitting Those Plants

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Trump Says Every Iranian Attack on a Ship Will Cost Tehran a Bridge or a Power Plant — and Iran Alone Picks When It Starts

Dollars and Sense

Saudi Arabia Shifted Millions of Barrels to Its Red Sea Port to Slip Around Hormuz — Now Houthi Missiles Can Reach It There

Dollars and Sense

Something Is Quietly Breaking Inside Russia — an Analyst Argues Kyiv’s Drone War Has Sparked a Nationwide Fuel Crisis

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

The Houthis Are Blockading Saudi Arabia — and the U.S. Now Fears It Lacks the Missiles to Fight Iran and Yemen at Once

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Iran Is Now Striking Tankers off the Oman Coast as the Strait of Hormuz Empties Out — and Only the Bravest Ships Still Dare to Cross

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