Hunter Stires
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@HunterStires
History, Strategy, Seapower, Statecraft. Proudly served as the Maritime Strategist to the 78th Secretary of the Navy. Be curious; when you can, be kind.
Today, I sent a letter to the Navy raising concerns about the extended deployment of USS Ford and the impacts for the ship’s maintenance and deployment cycle, Sailors’ morale and wellbeing, and Navy retention. Our servicemembers and their families deserve better.
Bessent: "We unsanctioned Russian oil ... in the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water"
Raju: If there are U.S. ground troops in Iran, should the administration go to Congress for approval? Speaker Mike Johnson: “If we're completing the mission, and it's a limited scope, then that's not a declaration of war.”
.@SECWAR “And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War II: We’ve decided to share the ocean with Iran. We’ve given them the bottom half. We’ve damaged or sunk over 120 of their Navy’s ships.”
As @alexstubb argues, Western navies should use their participation in Strait of Hormuz operations as leverage to negotiate a resumption/increase of U.S. support for Ukraine (plus the rest of the countries on NATO’s eastern front, especially as Russia escalates hybrid activity in Narva), and USN/USCG involvement in interdiction of the illicit Russian seaborne hydrocarbon trade that finances their warmaking on land. (To lower the price of oil, don’t ease sanctions on Russia and Iran—take their ships and sell their cargoes in friendly countries.)
NEW: The UK alongside France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan expresses readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz 👇 gov.uk/government/new…
New to MilX? You missed the A-10 funding war, think tank establishment vs. “stubborn” warplane supporters. It was epic. I stayed mostly out, just suggested giving them to the Merchant Marine to protect ships. My take got laughed at THE hardest by the “experts” with PhDs.
