National Security: Blockade

Joe Boyles Guest Columnist First, a disclaimer: I am not a naval officer, and this subject is part of naval doctrine. I do know something about naval history and geography and can comment on our situation with the Persian/Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. Hormuz is a strategic choke point. It bottles up all traffic exiting the Gulf, including tankers that ship 20 percent of all the world’s daily consumption of oil and gas. Most of that petroleum is shipped east, through the Indian Oc