The US Navy broke 90% of Iran’s military equation. Sixty warships destroyed. Missile factories in rubble. Two carrier strike groups hold the perimeter. But Hormuz is still closed — because the last 10% only needs one burning tanker to shut down the world’s most critical shipping lane.
So why is the Pentagon rushing a ship that analysts once dismissed as a “failed experiment” — USS Tripoli, LHA-7 — through the South China Sea at high speed? What can 2,500 Marines do that 50,000 sailors and two supercarriers could not?
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Timestamps:
0:00 The paradox: 90% solved, but Hormuz is still closed
2:29 The ship they called a “mistake” — and why they were wrong
6:20 Three scenarios: pocket carrier, island raids, and EABO
13:15 Iran’s impossible dilemma: three defenses, three failures
16:02 Why Marines solve what carriers cannot
Credit to : Navy Decoded