Why are littoral combat ships equipped with minesweeping packages being diverted to Malaysia?One of the possible, and perhaps most likely, reasons is highly problematic for the future of freedom of navigation.Minesweeping near Malaysia or Indonesia is not a useful part of deterring China from invading Taiwan. In a scenario where the U.S. is ramping up such deterrence, the most rational strategy would involve interdiction of Chinese commercial shipping, in which case we would be preparing to lay mines, or ta ...

President Trump saying on True Social that within the last few hours the US has destroyed 10 inactive mine laying boats or ships. This after of course of reports that Iran was beginning to lay mines in the straight of Hormuz. Just give us a sense of what Iran's uh mine capacity actually is and knowing that the administration has been uh heralding the fact that we've eliminated so many of their naval vessels, does that necessarily mean that they don't have the capabilities to place these nines anymore.So, ac ...