An “Act of War”? The Law of Naval Mining

07/12/2012
2012-07-12 by  Scott C. Truver, Director, TeamBlue, Gryphon Technologies LC [email protected] As tensions between the United States and Iran increased in early 2012, with threats from Teheran to close the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz––exacerbating concerns in jittery world petroleum markets––countered by increasingly draconian U.S. and UN sanctions, a U.S. Navy…