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THE KILLING STRAIT: Oil, Warships, and the World's Most Dangerous Waters Every day, a third of the world's oil passes through a strip of water twenty-one miles wide. Iranian missile batteries line one shore. The United States Navy patrols the other. One miscalculation ends the modern world as we know it. The Killing Strait is the definitive account of the waterway that holds the global economy hostage — how it became the most dangerous stretch of water on earth, who controls it, who threatens it, and what happens if it closes. Historian and defense analyst Marcus Carver Hale takes readers from the birth of the supertanker age through the Tanker War of the 1980s, Iran's rise as an asymmetric naval power, and the proxy conflicts now pushing the strait toward open war. Then he maps exactly how the next conflict begins — the tanker seizure that spirals, the naval algorithm that misfires, the proxy strike that kills American sailors, the Chinese warship that turns a bilateral standoff into something no one planned and no one can stop. Authoritative. Urgent. Impossible to put down. If you've ever filled a gas tank, paid an energy bill, or wondered why the Middle East never stops mattering — this book is for you.