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The Strait of Hormuz is just another example of an old familiar tactic. Familiar, that is, to those who study it. Do not forget the ways the Muslims used the tactic of Anti-Access and Area Denial on March 18, 1915.
"The great Turkish Naval Victory in the Dardanelles 111 years ago is one of the most striking examples of this. During the First World War, the Turks, who collapsed economically, had a weak navy and were militarily backward. They won a great victory against the Royal Navy Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, the most powerful navy in the world at the time, by using the advantage of mines, coastal artillery and geography.
"This fight was not only a military success but also a triumph of strategic thinking. The Dardanelles naval battle is therefore considered one of the most historically powerful examples of the A2/AD doctrine. This event is not merely the result of a war; it is also a major turning point that affects the course of the world war and international political balances. Today, 111 years later, the lessons learned from Çanakkale are still of great importance for modern naval strategy.
"A weak state was able to stop the world’s most powerful navy with the right defense system. The biggest weakness of imperialism is not only its arrogance, but also its mistaking its technological superiority for strategic superiority. On March 18, 1915, this mistake collapsed in the face of the brotherhood of mines and barrels. In the 2026 Gulf War, the same mistake is being tested again in the face of the brotherhood of UAVs and ballistic missiles. Yesterday, the aggressive British-French joint navy could not cross the strait in Çanakkale. Six proud high-tech warships were destroyed by the primitive Muslims with nets and mines. The British then tried to attack by land and lost 58,000 men in just a few months. The result? Disaster. Total defeat, embarrassment, and the collapse of the ruling government in Britain.
"History reminds us once again that brute force is not always decisive in a narrow geography, under determined defense and in the face of a common order of fire. Sometimes it’s not the size of the largest navy that changes history; It is a defensive architecture established in the right place at the right time. Trump recently decided to send the 31st Marine Expeditionary Task Group, (MEU) which carries 2500 marines stationed in Japan, to the Persian Gulf. If history repeats itself with an interval of 111 years and this incoming MEU attempts to invade the Strait region we can already say that most of the marines may be lost with great defeat for US military."
US military planners Trump, Hegseth, and the Joint Chiefs should read the memoirs of Churchill, who was the Minister of the Navy in the First World War during the Gallipoli Disaster. (Winston Churchill World in Crisis- 6 volumes)
-- Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz
On this most sacred day of the Christian faith, a US president who claims to be a Christian issues a threat to a nation of 94 million people, including over 500,000, Christians—threatening to commit war crimes (pursuant to Geneva Convention) against their civilian infrastructure.
"Behold the puerile, B-movie gangster style of his prose and his use of the word “F..kin’”—now the most overused word in the English language and the clearest expression of our degenerate culture.
"Upon seeing this post, I immediately thought of Madison’s reflections on the evil of war.
"The same malignant aspect . . . may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both.
"On this Easter Sunday, I pray that the innocent civilians of Iran will be spared from the sadistic and demented wrath of “President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
- John Leake
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This week, the US President gave an apparently delusional update of the Iran conflict. Iran's military is decimated, and it's President is asking for a cease fire, he reported.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman immediately rejected that. State broadcaster IRIB quoted Esmail Baghaei as saying Trump's statements were false and unfounded.
Trump attributed the request for a ceasefire to Iran's "New Regime President."
On the same day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian criticized the US war against his country in an open letter to the people of the United States on Wednesday, calling it an absurd operation that is costly for their nation.
Within hours of Mr. Trump's analysis of a destroyed Iranian military, Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to attack even as US President Donald Trump claimed the threat from the country was nearly eliminated and predicted the war would end soon.
In Mr. Trump's speech to the nation, Paul...
Today's assymetrical warfare: Iran's cheap munitions are taking out American's most expensive aircraft.
One internet observer:
"Iran, still using their pawns, while Israel and the US out there, with only their King n Queen left. Who will fall first?
"5 pawns and a king versus a king and queen in a chess end game, the side with the 8 pawns always wins. 5 pawns is enough. That’s standard.
"In a way, you could call it asymmetrical warfare."
