Why US won’t win with force alone in the Strait of Hormuz

Iranian attacks on Gulf vessels trying to transit via Omani sovereign waters have once again pulled the region into a tit-for-tat spiral of escalation. The US responded by canceling the waiver permitting Iranian oil exports. Two nights of punitive airstrikes by the US Air Force against targets across southern Iran followed. Iran answered with ballistic […]

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