The US plan to “guide” ships through the Strait of Hormuz, announced by President Donald Trump just hours before it went into effect, leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
US Central Command said in a statement on X that its support for the operation, dubbed Project Freedom, “will include guided-missile destroyers, over 100 land and sea-based aircraft, multi-domain unmanned platforms.”
But how those military assets figure into getting merchant ships moving through the strait again is not defined.
Jennifer Parker, a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute and a former Royal Australian Navy officer, told CNN Monday that she expects the US military to increase its presence in…