Captain Fennell

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Bannon`s War Room · Episode 5219: Where Does The Market Say The Economy Is Going With The Iran Conflict · 16 Mar 2026 podcast

So we have the capacity to start really making it apparent to the shipping community

that it is going to be safe.

Still needs some more time.

Well, those wars actually started in 81, but we didn't actually start doing the escort program

until, like you said, 87, 88.

And during that whole period, those seven, eight years, there were over 450 ships that were struck, attacked or struck by Iranians and Iraqis during that period.

55 of these ships actually sank during that time period.

And what we did in Operation Praying Mantis is that we started escorting groups of ships

with our destroyers and frigates.

We used to have a lot of frigates then because it was a 600 ship Navy.

Today, we only have a 300 ship Navy, but we have much greater capabilities on our ships with our Aegis radar systems.

So we have these Aegis equipped destroyers, the Arleigh Burke class, and those ships, and most of the estimates I've heard from former flags, admirals have said somewhere around a dozen or a little over, a little under.

If we had a dozen of those,

operating into the strait, escorting groups of tankers.

We could start ratcheting these numbers up from the 1, 2, 3, or 4 that happened a couple of days ago, up to in the 50s or 60s in short order.

But before we start putting a U.S.

Navy warship in those waters off that coast, CENTCOM is going to want to know and be absolutely certain that we don't bring a destroyer in there and have it take a hit from something that the Iranians have, and all of a sudden,

Now we're talking about how the United States Navy lost a warship and killed 300 sailors.

That's not what we want.

So they're going to make sure that they rub everything out.

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