Read that Trump was told about the Strait of Hormuz. But thought the war would only be a few days.
The only way that would have happened is if they killed the Supreme leader and claimed regime change had been achieved. While simultaneously blowing up a few selected sites & claiming they were nuclear building plants. Then leaving.
They did kill the Supreme leader. But did not claim regime change. Then they seemed to just lumber around. Blowing up some planes & ships. Supported by Israel. Plenty of time for Iran to consider using the Strait of Hormuz
I would have thought Iran was aware this was its trump card long before the war kicked off.
"There are unknown unknowns" is a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups.[1] Rumsfeld stated:
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.[1]Where does the Stait of Hormuz fit:
- Known knowns - things we know we know
- Known unknowns - we know there are things we do not know
- Unknown unknowns - things we don't know we don't know
The Strait of Hormuz is hardly something that can be hidden like WMD.
- things we should know but massively miscalculated based on excess hubris