Black Fort Strategic Intelligence Brief · Edition 54
Black Fort Strategic Intelligence Brief — Edition 54 | May 17, 2026
The institutionalization of Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority transforms a wartime closure into a permanent sovereignty claim over the world’s most critical energy chokepoint — while the Trump-Xi joint communiqué’s promise that “Hormuz must remain open” was issued on the same …
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