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Britain is revving up a European military response to Iranby Tom Rogan | July 22, 2019 03:12 PMEscalating against Iran, Britain's foreign secretary on Monday announced that Britain will establish "a European-led maritime protection mission to support safe passage" of tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz.This follows Iran's seizure of a British tanker on Friday. As I noted, that Iranian aggression was likely to backfire with just this kind of U.K. escalation.While Britain, France, and Germany oppose the Trump administration's maximum pressure sanctions campaign on Iran, they cannot permit Iran's endangerment of critical global trade flows. Hunt says that discussions with other European powers about the formation of a task force have been "constructive." And if Britain, France, Germany, each deploy one warship, and one or two other nations do the same, the Europeans will introduce a potent force to the Persian Gulf.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/britain-is-revving-up-a-european-military-response-to-iran?utm_source=RC%20Defense%20Morning%20Recon&utm_campaign=9c558533ac-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_22_10_52&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_694f73a8dc-9c558533ac-81835773
Pete wrote:"The British political system is more than a little clunky and slow,but once they give the word to "go",their army is pretty damn good."Army don't count here, Pete.It's on the water, kabish?We'll see how the Brit navy does... ;)