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Royal Navy, ‘CTF 150’,
(10 April 2010).
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John Mortimer and David Stevens (eds), Presence, Power Projection and Sea Control: the RAN
in the Gulf 1990-2009, Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs No. 28, Sea Power Centre -
Australia, Canberra, 2009, p. 89.
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See US Naval Forces Central Command, ‘Combined Task Force (CTF) 152’, USNAVCENT,
(15 April 2010).
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US Naval Forces Central Command, ‘Combined Task Force (CTF) 151’, USNAVCENT, (15 April 2010).
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Simon Henderson, Energy in Danger: Iran, Oil, and the West, Washington Institute for Near
East Policy, Policy Focus No. 83, June 2008, p. 2.
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Strauss Center, ‘Strait of Hormuz- Assessing Threats to Energy Security in the Persian Gulf’.
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Haghshenass, ‘Iran’s Asymmetric Naval Warfare’, p. 23.
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Henderson, Energy in Danger, p. ix; Anthony Cordesman, Iran, Oil and the Strait of Hormuz,
Center for International and Strategic Studies, Washington DC, March 2007, p. 2.
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US Energy Information Administration, ‘International Energy Statistics’, (15 April 2010).
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Anas Alhajji, ‘Will Iran pull the Trigger of the Oil Weapon?’ Gulf Research Center, February
2006, (3 April 2010).
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Henderson, Energy in Danger, p. 7.
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Wehrey et al, Dangerous but not Omnipotent, p. 40.
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Peter Pham, ‘Iran’s Threat to the Strait of Hormuz: a Realist Assessment’, American Foreign
Policy Interests, vol. 32, no. 2, 2010, p. 70.
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See Michael Bauer and Christian-Peter Hanelt, Security Situation in the Gulf Region Involving
Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia as Regional Powers, Center for Applied Policy Research and
Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh and Munich, September 2008.
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Howard S Levie, Mine Warfare at Sea, Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1992, pp. 59-60, and Jon
Rios, ‘Naval Mines in the 21st Century: Can NATO Navies meet the Challenge?’, 2005.
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Discussion with Michael Connell, CNA, April 2010.
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David Eshel, ‘David and Goliath: Small Boats Menace Littorals’, Aviation Week Online, 28
March 2010, (2 April 2010).
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David Eshel, ‘David and Goliath: Small Boats Menace Littorals’.
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Wehrey et al, Dangerous but not Omnipotent, pp. 64-5.
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Farhad Pouladi, ‘Iran Guards Test Missiles as War Games End: State Media’, Sydney Morning
Herald, 26 April 2010,
(30 April 2010); ‘Iran denounces US
‘nuclear threats’, manoeuvre in Strait of Hormuz’, International Business Times, 21 April
2010,
(30 April 2010).