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

After four months into the conflict, Iran is defiantly refusing to capitulate. This “four week war” now threatens to become ...

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

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

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

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

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

President Donald J. Trump on March 9, 2026 declared that the United States “will not allow Iran’s terrorist regime to stop global oil supply. The Strait of Hormuz is going to remain safe. We have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iran, for its part, has calibrated its control over the strait with precision. Satellite data and marine traffic analysis ...