Trump's Offensive to the Oil Tanker War: The Growing Strategic Importance of Hormuz

The regular Iranian armed forces have always had fewer resources than the Revolutionary Guard," notes Sidharth Kaushal, an expert at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. "The Revolutionary Guard has fast attack craft, surface drones, and anti-ship missiles derived from the Chinese C-802, which can pose a real danger to escort vessels entering these confined waters."