Cash wrote:nth wrote:
If US goes to war with Iran as happened in late 1980's, very few tankers got hit. US was able to wipe out the navy and prevent any missiles from hitting the tankers. A very amazing feat, imo.
Did I miss a war somewhere? When did the US got to war against Iran? This sounds like the fictional scenario presented in Tom Clancy's book, Executive Decisions. Or are you talking about the US-Iraq War, aka Gulf War I? Iraq never had the ability to threaten Gulf tanker traffic during that conflict.
During the Iran-Iraq War of the early 1980s, Gulf oil traffic was severely disrupted and several tankers were hit with missiles. That's why the price of oil at that time hit a peak that has yet to be matched, around $90 a barrel in current dollars.
Cash, who occasionally misses a few days of newspapers but rarely misses a war.
Instead of just googling it, you link this to some fictional book?
So typical of people just ignore a war that killed millions of people.