Strategic Ambiguity Is Becoming the Gulf’s New Deterrence Doctrine (opens in new tab)

In the Gulf, the most important signals are increasingly the ones no actor fully confirms. For decades, Gulf security rested on a relatively clear deterrence model: the United States would protect the flow of energy; Iran would threaten disruption but usually avoid full closure of the Strait of Hormuz; and Gulf Arab states would rely […] The post Strategic Ambiguity Is Becoming the Gulf’s New Deterrence Doctrine appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.