At the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest—also called the Varian Disaster after General Varus’s suicide during the battle—Germanic warriors carrying wooden spears and leather helmets slaughtered three far better-equipped legions of the Roman army, including the Romans’ prostitutes. The Germans succeeded because they lured Rome into an ambush. And that’s what the Strait of Hormuz is: an ambush.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone if Iran (and China) have rigged the strait with secret sea-floor weapons, ready to blast American carriers to pieces in a humiliating defeat. If there were any place on Earth where a third-world enemy could defeat the U.S. military, it would be the mountainous terrain of Iran. Indeed, unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, Iran is a giant ambush site, with weapons stashed in caves.
