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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.

Energy is no longer simply a commodity — it has become the operating system of global power, where oil, electricity, semiconductors, and artificial intelligence are woven into a single architecture redefining the balance of power in the 21st century.