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Airpower opened Iran’s skies. Why hasn’t it reopened Hormuz?

The hardest lesson of the Iran war for a US military “that has dominated the blue skies for generations,” two Stimson Center experts argue, “may be that the decisive contest has moved below.”

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Primary source: Breaking Defense

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