The Strait of Hormuz crisis: Why the US may be heading toward a strategic disaster

US forces could capture a key Iranian island, but this would lead to a whole host of new problems

When the US and Israel choose the logic of coercive pressure on Iran, they inevitably step into more than just another Middle Eastern crisis. They enter one of the most dangerous knots in world politics.

Here, military geography is directly bound up with global energy flows, the internal resilience of states, and the limits of American power projection.