Abstract This paper reviews the security challenges from several perspectives, the first and perhaps most important being the geo‐strategic reality that Taiwan will always be…
Topic: Maritime Security
Abstract The United States needs to be prepared to use its own asymmetrical operations against Iran. During 1987, CENTCOM and U.S. Special Operations Command developed…
Abstract Some officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have recently renewed threats to close or exercise control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s threats…
Abstract The Strait of Hormuz is widely viewed as one of the most important maritime chokepoints in existence today – certainly it is the most…
Abstract Some 15 million barrels of oil â more than 18% of daily worldwide oil demand â transit the Strait of Hormuz each day. Many…
Abstract The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic chokepoint in the Arabian Gulf through which ninety percent of all Gulf exports pass –the equivalent of…
Abstract The dangers facing oil tankers carrying their vital cargo over long distances haunt leaders worldwide and animate their discussions about naval procurement. Military analysts…
Abstract The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s premier oil transportation choke point, and it seems worthwhile to recite the details that make it so…
Abstract Scrambling a fighter jet from Qatar or the UAE to Iran, for example, only takes several minutes. […] the United States will continue to…
Abstract Along with the Strait of Malacca and the Singapore Straits, the Strait of Hormuz is arguably the most important bottleneck in international navigation because…
Abstract The cost of adding additional capacity to transport oil from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the Red Sea is studied. If this capacity is…
Abstract The proliferation of modern anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) weapons has changed the severity of the threat in constricted waters such as the Strait of Hormuz…
Abstract The Strait of Hormuz is arguably the most strategically significant transit chokepoint in the world with about one-fifth of global oil consumption passing through…
Abstract Political-security arrangements in the Persian Gulf based on “balance of power” are incapable of maintaining security and stability in the region, especially since the…
Abstract William O’Neil replies to Caitlin Talmadge’s Summer 2008 International Security article, “Closing Time: Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz.” PDF
