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Posted on 03/19/2026 10:21:18 AM PDT by Retain Mike
Acting on direction from the White House, the Pentagon and the Navy are devising a plan to escort merchant ships and tankers through the narrow passage. In the past, mines have been a primary weapon to restrict transit through the waterway, but during the current conflict, Iran is choosing projectiles to control the waterway.
Still the U.S. is striking Iran’s mine layers Caine said. “We’ve made it a priority to target Iran’s minelaying enterprise, their mine layers, the naval bases and depots, in addition to the missiles that could influence the straits,” Caine said. “And [U.S. Central Command] continues to attack those efforts.”
Caine called the strait “a tactically complex environment” while talking about comments from Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who said earlier this week that the Navy is not yet ready to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, walking back an earlier social media post that Wright deleted that said an escort had already been done.
The Iranians have chosen to use projectiles to control the Strait of Hormuz, Nicholas Carl, assistant director for the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project, told USNI News. Projectiles allow Iran to choose which ship to allow to pass compared to mining the strait, which would endanger Iranian vessels, as well as those belonging to the Iran-friendly Chinese government.
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If it floats, sink it, flys, shoot it down, talks - kill it.
Dear Xi:
If you don’t share oil, we’ll not let certain Chinese-made goods into our country:
1. clothes
2. toys
3. recreational goods
4. gardening goods
It’s most certainly foolhardy to put capital ships in a hostile strait of supersonic cruise missiles, only 22 miles wide.
Anti missile defense doesn’t have sufficient time to react.
If there are viable missile forces along the hostile shore, it’s a most dangerous mission and ill advised.
We can’t remove mines if mine removal ships are in Malaysia.
Ah, the world according to FR! So simple and obvious, why doesn’t the Pentagon just come here for its war plans?
Huge barrels (say 10 meters in diameter and 50 meters long) or barges might be floated through the Strait.
These would mostly be submerged as oil weighs about as much as water.
They could be given protective wings to protect again missile and torpedo attack, motors to move them, and a guidance system.
They could be run through the Strait when wind would blow any oil slick onto Iranian shores.
I’m sure this is not really practical,
but I would love to see our jets fly
over the strait shooting at the water
blowing up any mines that might be there.
It’s like clearing a minefield.
I really hope our guys are having the
time of their lives blowing stuff up.
Reading FR posts on U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East is like watching people bet on professional wrestling.
Dear UK Citizen:
The amount of your gas ration will depend on your postcode and your fairly recent National Insurance contributions.
The Prime Minister
“jets fly
over the strait shooting at the water
blowing up any mines”
The area is roughly about the size of New Jersey.
Mines are cleared by special ships that sail slightly ahead of other vessels.
LOL. Such a good point.
They’re “devising a plan” means they have not been able to come up with any workable plan yet. And they likely won’t, so long as hostilities continue.
It’s just more talk to calm markets and oil prices. It works for a while, but only for a while.
Ah, the world according to FR! So simple and obvious…
It’s called discord, and it’s okay.
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