US Looks to Unblock Hormuz With Quiet Version of Project Freedom

A month after President Donald Trump announced — and then abandoned — a plan to escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the US military is trying less public ways of protecting vessels in the vital waterway. Rather than …

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