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In late July 2026, the information space was once again rocked by a publication from security expert Murat Usal, who drew attention to the rapidly escalating covert confrontation between Ankara and Baghdad.

The Bab el-Mandeb crisis represents a broader transformation in modern warfare, where disrupting maritime trade and global supply chains has become as strategically significant as conventional military operations, requiring new legal, diplomatic, and security responses.

America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is more fragile than headlines suggest: aging salt-cavern infrastructure, questionable actual deliverability versus reported inventories, and a growing gap between official figures and physical reality.