Top General: Pentagon Considering Escorts After Iran Incident at Hormuz
The statement from Gen. Mark Milley, Trump’s nominee for the Pentagon’s top job, came hours after an attempted Iranian attack on a British vessel.
By Paul D. Shinkman, Senior National Security Writer July 11, 2019, at 1:36 p.m.
The Pentagon is considering deploying the military to guard commercial ships as they transit the increasingly hostile Strait of Hormuz in a possible return to a Reagan-era policy that prompted fears at the time of military conflict.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, currently serving as the Army's top officer, described the ability for ships to navigate freely in international waters as "a fundamental principle," adding the U.S. has "a crucial role to enforce that norm."
Milley went on to indicate that the U.S. may begin naval escorts.
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