The Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Aden

... forces that carried out the criminal attacks on civil ships — a problem that did not exist a decade ago — looks hard to solve today. Nonetheless, the issue of freedom of navigation that hastened the creation of an international coalition in the Gulf of Aden in 2009 appears no less acute in the Strait of Hormuz in 2019. From the point of view of their significance for the global transportation system, the strait and the gulf are quite comparable, which means there are certain prerequisites for the UN Security Council to draft and adopt an appropriate resolution that could serve as grounds for the formation of a new international naval coalition similar to Combined Task ...