A Wakeup Call in the Persian Gulf
Earlier this week, many in Washington held their breath after the U.S. Navy announced that the USNS Rappahannock had resorted to “lethal force” and fired on a small vessel in the Persian Gulf that had rapidly approached the U.S. ship. Although we subsequently learned that it was Indian fishermen – not Iranian sailors – who had been […]
US Navy Sets an Example
With some in Congress openly advocating for the punishment of innocent Iranians and the drumbeat of war growing louder, it was especially refreshing to see the American sense of humanity still alive in a recent rescue operation by the US Navy. On August 20, the US Navy rescued eight Iranian fishermen from a burning boat […]
Naval Incident Shows Need for Greater Communication
The radio transmission that almost caused a firefight between US navy warships and the Iranian military might have been the work of a heckler known as the ‘Filipino monkey.’