A new Tanker War with Iran
This time the war expands far beyond the Persian Gulf and this is one more proxy war for China
Many forget the intense war in the shadows during the 1980s as America took measures to protect the oil flow from the Persian Gulf.
Operation Ernest Will was the re-flagging and protection of Kuwaiti tankers to protect them from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988. The sub-operation of Nimble Archer was a kinetic action against Iranian Gulf Oil Platforms.
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