Maritime Security in the Gulf-US Partnership

Talk of maritime security threats in the Arabian Gulf region continues to be of great importance for three reasons: first, that maritime security threats can no longer be separated from the turbulent regional landscape in general, and secondly, that these threats have gone beyond piracy and smuggling operations to target oil tankers, which has brought to mind the possibility of a new tanker war similar to the one that occurred during the Iraqi-Iranian war in the eighties,

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