Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The threat against Oman looks different once you know what Washington reportedly fears: that Muscat and other Gulf capitals might open the strait themselves,...
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Dollars and Sense
Seven commodity vessels crossed the strait on Thursday, none of them supertankers or gas carriers. Traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb dropped as well. Chinese...
The Treaty
Going dark hides tankers from Iranian targeting and from the commercial trackers at the same time, which is why public counts show a trickle...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The West went into this crisis with less refining capacity than it once had and is scheduled to lose more. Global processing has fallen...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Energy Information Administration counted well over twenty million barrels a day through the strait in early 2025. By the second quarter of this...
Dollars and Sense
Tankers are grouped and moved through the Omani channel in designated night windows, loaded ships outbound followed by empty ships inbound, under Air Force...
Dollars and Sense
Tankers move at night through the Omani side rather than the Iranian one. A shipping analyst calls the southern corridor one of the war's...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Bahrain holds the Fifth Fleet headquarters, Qatar and Kuwait the major air and ground facilities. Hundreds of American structures have been damaged since February....
Dollars and Sense
Abu Dhabi spent years shielding its commercial relationship with Tehran while keeping a close security partnership with Washington. Dubai's re-export and finance trade was...