Tag Archives: War

Bloomberg, January 5, 2020 (Bloomberg Opinion) – Events in 2019 served as a reminder for just how vulnerable the world’s oil supply is, and Iran was usually blamed as the culprit for attacks on ships, pipelines and processing plants in the Middle East. But the knock-on effects blew over quickly in a world that appeared oblivious to the geopolitics of oil. Now …

PortandTerminal.com, December 1, 2019 Camouflage is usually about blending in, but some of the most unusual camouflage during World War I wasn’t designed to do that. Instead of attempting to hide a ship, the goal was to conceal the ship’s course through flashy misdirection. LONDON – In the early days of modern warfare, ships protected themselves from German U-boats with wild, eye-distracting painted patterns called dazzle. The …

PortandTerminal.com, June 13, 2019 UPDATE (May 14, 2019) : Yesterday Reuters (and us) reported that Iranian State media was claiming that one of the two ships attacked had sunk. It turns out that the ship stubbornly did not sink. Not even close. Please see our update Fake news is still safely afloat in the Gulf of Oman ship attack for the …