The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis exposes the inadequacy of some classical geopolitical frameworks. Alfred Thayer Mahan’s sea ...
Iran has also fired on and damaged merchant shipping attempting to run the gauntlet. In early May, as many as 2,000 merchant ...
The Strait of Hormuz is arguably the most consequential chokepoint in the global economy. Barely thirty kilometers wide at ...
The Hormuz Closure and the Limits of Sanctions: How Russia Benefited from Iran’s Chokepoint Weapon
It did so not because it trusted Moscow, but because the closure of Hormuz had rendered its own sanctions architecture ...
In the Middle Eastern theater, Iran exercises strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz through the employment of Unmanned ...
The Trump administration responded with an instrument no prior administration deployed at scale. The $40 billion DFC-Chubb ...
Iran War Topic Week. By Ehud Eiran. The joint military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on ...
Iran, for its part, has calibrated its control over the strait with precision. Satellite data and marine traffic analysis ...
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 ...
Financial warfare is conventionally understood as an instrument applied to declared, identifiable assets. Common tactics include freezing accounts, cutting off correspondent banking access, and market ...
For the next two weeks, CIMSEC will be featuring writing submitted to our Call for Articles on maritime conflict with Iran.
Written by Wilder Alejandro Sanchez, The Southern Tide addresses maritime security issues throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It discusses the challenges regional navies face including limited ...
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