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The Strait as Weapon

The Strait as Weapon

Baig, Naim Tahir

Paperback

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsNaval History

ISBN13: 9798235533714
Publisher: Institute of Geo-Strategic Studies
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The Strait as Weapon: Hormuz and the Insurance-Blockade Template

By Dr Naim Tahir Baig

In February-March 2026, the Islamic Republic of Iran did something that no analytical framework in maritime strategic studies had adequately anticipated. Following the opening strikes of Operation Epic Fury - the coordinated United States and Israeli military campaign that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the first wave - Tehran's response was not the conventional naval engagement that four decades of Pentagon planning had prepared for. It was, instead, a calibrated combination of VHF broadcasts, selective drone strikes, and a formal declaration of protective transit control that delegated the enforcement of its blockade to a target the United States Fifth Fleet could not reach: the war-risk underwriting desks of the Lloyd's marine insurance market in London. Within seventy-two hours, the Strait of Hormuz - through which twenty percent of global seaborne oil moves - was commercially closed without a single mine in the water. By 5 March, war-risk cover had been withdrawn entirely. Approximately 3,200 vessels lay stranded outside Fujairah. LNG transits fell to zero for the first time in the strait's recorded history.

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