Why Mine Clearing Is The Key To Open The Strait of Hormuz Day 53 at the Strait of Hormuz. As you’re watching this, two US Navy destroyers are moving at a crawl through one of the narrowest, most dangerous stretches of water on the planet. Twenty percent of the world’s oil. One mine away from catastrophe. And here’s what everyone gets wrong. Reopening the Strait of Hormuz isn’t a job for more destroyers. It isn’t a job for carrier strike groups. It isn’t a job for more airstrikes on the Iranian coast. The answer comes down to one of the slowest, most dangerous missions in modern naval warfare and that is clearing mines from the water, one by one, under the guns of an enemy that is still watching. #straitofhormuz #navy #operationepicfury #navypigeon

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