Neutralizing Chokepoints: Lessons From the Hormuz Strait, Malacca, and Baltic Sea
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The waters of the Persian Gulf have turned into a grand stage for high-stakes geopolitical attrition. Washington’s decision to launch a…Continue reading on Medium »
Disruptions in Hormuz immediately generate concern regarding Malacca, another vital maritime chokepoint.
Two chokepoints now stand out: advanced semiconductors for China and rare-earth minerals for the United States.
Iran War Topic Week By Rear Adm. Roberto Domini, Italian Navy, (Ret.) Introduction The Strait of Hormuz is arguably the most consequential chokepoint in the global economy. Barely...
Global supply chains face unprecedented threats as maritime chokepoints become geopolitical battlegrounds. The US-Iran conflict highlighted how disruptions in vital waterways like...
As the Strait of Hormuz reopens toll-free, Iran’s Quds Force has already built and tested a second chokepoint that no peace text has ever named. The post
Edward Fishman's Chokepoints explains how the US came to rely on its economic arsenal, but stops short of a complete assessment of the unreliable tactic and its often devastating c...
For months, the dominant assumption in shipping circles has been that the Hormuz crisis is, at its core, a routing problem. If Hormuz is closed or contested, operators reroute. The...
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Industry sources say operations have been affected by yard congestion and associated delays in inter-terminal transfer activity, which is an integral part of transshipment operatio...
Could declare that all fibre-optic cables passing through the waterway are subject to permits, IRGC says
Opening the Strait of Hormuz remains Iran’s most valuable bargaining chip; one it seems eager to retain after seeing the drastic effect its closing has had on world trade.
Dark transits, secondary rate contagion, and a revived Houthi blockade are converging to produce a shipping crisis that no single chokepoint map can capture. The post
Two key exit routes through Hormuz have emerged over the past several weeks because the normal one through the middle is thought to have been mined.
As the Strait of Hormuz crisis grips the global economy, nations are vying to secure other vulnerable waterways
Early this week, Iranian state-linked media floated a plan to charge the operators of undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz for access to what they say is Iran’s offshor...
Widespread interference with signals on the industry’s Automatic Identification System continues to cloud the picture, making independent verification of ship traffic difficult.
The return of Somali piracy is not a separate crisis from the Houthi standoff in the Red Sea. It is the same crisis, expressed in a different theatre. The post
The signing of the US–Iran Memorandum of Understanding on June 14 may be to read this as a return to normalcy. It is not. The MoU ends one phase of the...
The Strait of Hormuz has evolved into a laboratory for a new form of geopolitical coercion where access itself becomes currency.
Middle East oil producers face a reckoning. The Iran war exposed the dangers of relying on a single chokepoint for vital oil and gas exports, leaving Gulf governments with a clear...
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