Hormuz Problem: How To Impose Costs Without Incurring Risk
Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage · Bias: Center Right
Summary
The USS Tripoli is quickly steaming towards the Middle East with its 2,500 embarked Marines. Meanwhile, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a trickle, oil prices are rising worldwide, and countries are hesitant to commit a portion of their navies to provide convoy escort through this 20-mile-wide nautical chokepoint. It's a bedeviling problem that Iran is using to impose costs on others.
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