Can the U.S. Navy Really Stop Iran From Creating An Economic Crisis?
Convoys are the worst of all strategies for protecting mercantile shipping against raiders. Except for all the others.
If it deters war in the Gulf, maybe convoy duty will come to count as a glamour mission after all.
James Holmes is J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College. The views voiced here are his alone. (This first appeared in June 2019.)
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