Tag Archives: Strait of Hormuz
Carriers of the Indo-Pacific Maritime Great Game
By Felix Seidler, Institute for Security Policy, University of Kiel, Germany / German blogger. Less Liaoning Nothing has been as over-hyped since August 2011 as China’s aircraft carrier program. After the former Soviet carrier Varyag, fully refurbished by the Chinese and renamed Liaoning, took its first “test drive”, thousands of blog posts, press pieces, and scholarly [...]
Read MoreStrait Talking: A Canadian Perspective on Hormuz
By Michael Bonner Late last year, Iran began threatening to close the strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. At their narrowest point between Iran and Oman, the Strait are only 21 miles wide, but they have a perceived significance out of all proportion to their size, as some 17 million barrels of oil pass [...]
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