(®) 10m ago (23:20 GMT) ALANALYSIS Any US effort to force open Strait of Hormuz would be ‘tough fight’ Harlan Ullman, senior advisor at The Atlantic Council and former US naval offi- cer, says the US could likely force open the Strait of Hormuz if it commits enough resources, but such an operation would carry enormous military and political risks. “The key question is how much force is the US prepared to expend and what are Iranian forces likely to do,” Ullman told Al Jazeera. He said Iran could deploy large numbers of mines and drones, potentially over- whelming the US’s magasine capacity. “That becomes a really tough fight,” Ullman said. “And if for some reason an American ship is hit — not sunk but hit — it seems to me because the majority of Americans are opposed to the war that would be a huge public relations disaster.” “So could the navy force an opening?” he asked. “Probably if we put enough force, but the risk would be huge and the blowback could be even larger if our ships, heaven forbid, were hit.”
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