Trump confronts limits to US power to secure Strait of Hormuz

Caitlin Talmadge, member of the Security Studies Program (SSP) and faculty affiliate at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy (CNSP), is quoted: "[The administration] very seriously underestimated Iran’s willingness and ability to close the strait... [Iran’s stockpile of weapons systems] appears to be more resilient and innovative in employing these assets than was anticipated before the war.”