From the price at the pump to shipping costs, Dr. T.X. Hammes joins other experts to share viewpoints on the Iran war's impact on the global economy in a set of articles in Inkstick. 

In the first Gulf War, Iraqi mines disabled the USS Princeton and the USS Tripoli. At the time, the Tripoli was leading a mine clearing task force with significantly more mine clearing assets than in the Gulf today. Despite the task force’s best efforts, mines precluded any amphibious operations in the northern Gulf. Unfortunately, the challenges of mine clearing today are an order of magnitude more difficult than in 1991. Today’s mines are much more sophisticated. They can be deployed at multiple levels — floating on the surface, floating or moored in the water column, and placed on the bottom. 

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