How Do We Improve Global Maritime Security?

How Do We Improve Global Maritime Security?
The Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi is surrounded by Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on May 3, 2023. U.S. Navy via AP
Austin Bay
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Once again Iran’s robed dictators are launching attacks on oil tankers attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz. In the last two weeks of April, Iranian forces boarded and seized two oil tankers. One tanker carried crude destined for the United States, so its seizure constituted a direct attack on American maritime commerce.

Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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