October 27, 2026 | WSJ Letter to the Editor
America’s Military Presence Reshapes Hormuz
Progress is undeniable, and there is a clear explanation.
October 27, 2026 | WSJ Letter to the Editor
America’s Military Presence Reshapes Hormuz
Progress is undeniable, and there is a clear explanation.
Excerpt
As your editorial highlights in “The Democratic Hormuz Alternative” (Oct. 16), some are ready to declare defeat and hand the Strait of Hormuz to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
But the tide is beginning to turn in the battle for the Strait of Hormuz—thanks to the U.S. military. It is performing two tasks superbly and simultaneously: the implementing of a naval blockade of Iran and facilitating the export of non-Iran oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Bradley Bowman is the co-author of Axis of Aggressors: Countering the Cooperation of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea and the senior director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power, where Logan Rolleigh is a research assistant.