The prognosis of the Iran war is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that any accurate prediction is impossible. Yet there is good reason to believe in an eventual outcome quite favorable to the United States and one far better than the status quo ante bellum.
The Strait of Hormuz
Prior to U.S. President Donald Trump’s most recent announcement that the United States would first blockade and then reopen and control traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, only a few ships were going through, mostly those aligned with Iran, opposed to the United States, or neutral.
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
