END OF THE KILLING STRAIT
Oil, Warships, and the World's Most Dangerous WatersBy Marcus Carver Hale
Length3h 7m
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THE KILLING STRAIT: Oil, Warships, and the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Every day, a third of the world's oil passes through a strip of water twenty-one miles wide. Iranian missile batteries line one shore. The United States Navy patrols the other. One miscalculation ends the modern world as we know it.
The Killing Strait is the definitive account of the waterway that holds the global economy hostage — how it became the most dangerous stretch of water on earth, who controls it, who threatens it, and what happens if it closes.
Historian and defense analyst Marcus Carver Hale takes readers from the birth of the supertanker age through the Tanker War of the 1980s, Iran's rise as an asymmetric naval power, and the proxy conflicts now pushing the strait toward open war. Then he maps exactly how the next conflict begins — the tanker seizure that spirals, the naval algorithm that misfires, the proxy strike that kills American sailors, the Chinese warship that turns a bilateral standoff into something no one planned and no one can stop.
Authoritative. Urgent. Impossible to put down.
If you've ever filled a gas tank, paid an energy bill, or wondered why the Middle East never stops mattering — this book is for you.
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GenrePolitics and Government, History
Length3 hrs 7 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13Chapter 8 — Targets on the Water: Missile Strikes, Mines, and the Assault on Shipping
2Preface: Why Hormuz Changes Everything
14Chapter 9 — Operation Earnest Will: The U.S. Navy Enters the Fight
3PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY OF POWER
15Chapter 10 — The Vincennes Incident: Tragedy, Controversy, and the Fog of War
4Chapter 1 — Twenty-One Miles: The Anatomy of a Chokepoint
16PART FOUR: THE MODERN CRISIS
5Chapter 2 — Ancient Passage: Trade, Conquest, and the Persian Gulf Before Oil
17Chapter 11 — The Rise of the IRGCN: Iran's Asymmetric Naval Strategy
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6Chapter 3 — Imperial Eyes: Britain, the Gulf, and the Birth of Strategic Control
18Chapter 12 — The Nuclear Shadow: How Iran's Atomic Program Reshaped Naval Tension
7PART TWO: THE AGE OF OIL
19Chapter 13 — Tanker Seizures: The New Warfare Below the Threshold of War
8Chapter 4 — Black Water: How Petroleum Transformed the Strait
20Chapter 14 — China, Russia, and the Fracturing of Gulf Security
9Chapter 5 — The American Watch: U.S. Naval Presence and the Carter Doctrine
21PART FIVE: THE COMING STORM
10Chapter 6 — Soviet Shadows: Cold War Rivalry in the Persian Gulf
22Chapter 15 — The Next War at Sea: Scenarios, Flashpoints, and the Logic of Escalation
11PART THREE: THE TANKER WAR
23EPILOGUE
12Chapter 7 — The War That Spilled Seaward: Iraq, Iran, and the Opening of Hostilities
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