MisterMacaque (@MonkeymanSmith)

Why Fort Bragg Is The Key to Open the Strait of Hormuz Navy Pigeon 963 subscribers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ehyiFKl5g 26 Mar 2026 #straitofhormuz #usnavy #navypigeon Why Fort Bragg Is The Key to Open the Strait of Hormuz The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for twenty-seven days despite the most powerful naval force in the world sitting at its entrance, because Iran's control of the strait was never built on naval power, it was built on a 100-mile network of land-based missile systems, hardened tunnels, and fortified islands that air strikes can degrade but never permanently destroy. The solution is not more naval pressure, it is the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina: 18,000 paratroopers on 18-hour notice, capable of seizing the strait's islands, clearing the coastal launch sites, and capturing Kharg Island, which processes 90 percent of Iran's crude exports and whose loss would make continued defiance economically impossible within weeks. The Navy has done its job — the question now is whether Washington is ready to use the force that doesn't just threaten to change the outcome at Hormuz, but actually does.