{"id":9164,"date":"2026-05-04T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:59:35","slug":"9164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/05\/04\/9164\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/defense\/artc-us-flagged-ships-sails-hormuz-says-centcom-live-blog\">\u201cIran warns ships to pass only in &#8216;designated corridor&#8217;; Pentagon: Tehran\u2019s actions below threshold to restart war | LIVE BLOG,\u201d<\/a> i24, 5-4-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2026\/05\/04\/us-destroys-six-iranian-small-boats-shoots-down-missiles-drones-admiral-says\/\">\u201cUS destroys six Iranian small boats, shoots down missiles, drones, admiral says,\u201d<\/a> Military Times, 5-4-26.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ve been saying on this blog for years that deterrence against the speed boats only works if you take action.\u00a0 Horns, radio messages, warning shots, and flares don\u2019t do the trick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-revolutionary-guards-unveil-new-map-strait-hormuz-under-their-control-2026-05-04\/\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards unveil new map of Strait of Hormuz under their control, state media says,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 5-4-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran warns ships to pass only in &#8216;designated corridor&#8217;; Pentagon: Tehran\u2019s actions below threshold to restart war | LIVE BLOG,\u201d i24, 5-4-26. \u201cUS destroys six Iranian small boats, shoots down missiles, drones, admiral says,\u201d Military Times, 5-4-26.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ve been saying on this blog for years that deterrence against the speed boats only works if you take &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/05\/04\/9164\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions\/9182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}