US targets mine-laying vessels in the Strait of Hormuz amid blockade disrupting global oil markets​

Admiral James G. Foggo, U.S. Navy (Ret.)  | Quoted by Chris Boccia and Luis Martinez

External Source: ABC News

But mines are low-cost and easily deployed, even by small boats — an “asymmetric weapon,” said retired US Adm. James Foggo, who commanded the U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet and is now the dean of the Center for Maritime Strategy.

“Some might say [mines are] a poor man’s weapon,” Foggo said. “So if you don’t have anything else, you lay mines … [and] any vessel is a minelayer. So you could have a [boat] that looks like a fishing vessel running around and rolling mines off the stern in the dark.”

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