15 hours ago · A Dangerous Bottleneck Iran is turning the Strait of Hormuz into a battlefield, proving that a short and surgical war with Iran could be a fantasy.

Until now, the US Navy has avoided operations in the dangerous strait region, but it must now deploy vessels to protect civilian merchant ships. This creates conditions where Iran can achieve a de ...

2 days ago · Even if strait traffic reopens soon, the dangerous and complex process of protecting those tankers could maintain a bottleneck for a month or longer, noted Jay Hatfield, CEO & founder of ...

17 hours ago · World’s most dangerous oil bottleneck: Are there alternative routes if Iran keeps Strait of Hormuz blocked? Strait of Hormuz disruption: Building new pipelines could reduce dependence on …

1 day ago · Iran is turning the Strait of Hormuz into a battlefield, proving that a short and surgical war with Iran could be a fantasy.

Mar 4, 2026 · In strategic terms, China faces a double exposure: both oil and LNG flows converge at the same geographic bottleneck. The Gulf Beyond Oil Energy is only part of the story. Over the past …

Mar 6, 2026 · It lies in the fact that the modern global economy has built an extraordinary amount of dependence around a geographic bottleneck that is structurally fragile.