{"id":2986,"date":"2006-09-18T10:14:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/be-ready-to-move-by-oct-1\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:16:47","slug":"be-ready-to-move-by-oct-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/be-ready-to-move-by-oct-1\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Be ready to move by Oct. 1 &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Time <\/em>magazine [Sept. 25] via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/009834.php\">Joshua Micah Marshall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The first message was routine enough: A &#8216;Prepare to Deploy&#8217; order sent through naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters. The orders didn&#8217;t actually command the ships out of port; they just said to be ready to move by Oct. 1. But inside the Navy those messages generated more buzz than usual last week when a second request, from the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), asked for fresh eyes on long-standing U.S. plans to blockade two Iranian oil ports on the Persian Gulf. The CNO had asked for a rundown on how a blockade of those strategic targets might work. When he didn&#8217;t like the analysis he received, he ordered his troops to work the lash up once again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s going on? The two orders offered tantalizing clues. There are only a few places in the world where minesweepers top the list of U.S. naval requirements. And every sailor, petroleum engineer and hedge-fund manager knows the name of the most important: the Strait of Hormuz, the 20-mile-wide bottleneck in the Persian Gulf through which roughly 40% of the world&#8217;s oil needs to pass each day. Coupled with the CNO&#8217;s request for a blockade review, a deployment of minesweepers to the west coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut until now largely theoretical\u00e2\u20ac\u201dprospect has become real: that the U.S. may be preparing for war with Iran.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Time magazine [Sept. 25] via Joshua Micah Marshall: &#8220;The first message was routine enough: A &#8216;Prepare to Deploy&#8217; order sent through naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters. The orders didn&#8217;t actually command the ships out of port; they just said to be ready to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}