Amid spiralling war in West Asia, the US Air Force has moved dozens of refuelling tankers to Europe to support potential ...

Expressive Force: use of navies to send a political message. This aspect of gunboat diplomacy is undervalued and almost dismissed by Cable. The Islamic Republic of Iran's approach to the sea has ...

The foolish attempt at gunboat diplomacy has taken place during a disastrous year for the ruling dictatorship in Iran. The economy has collapsed, unemployment is pervasive, inflation is out of ...

U.S. warships Monday in the Strait of Hormuz fired warning shots at armed Iranian speedboats that had approached to within 150 yards of the American flotilla, U.S. officials said. Two of the ...

The U.S. Navy fired warning shots at Iranian military boats in the northern Persian Gulf on Monday, the first such escalation in nearly four years, the Pentagon announced. The incident marks the ...

President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday that he’d ordered the U.S. Navy to destroy any Iranian gunboats that “harass our ships at sea,” one week after close encounters between ...

Interceptor missiles, attack drones, deck-mounted guns, electronic warfare weapons and even lasers could quickly be called upon by U.S. Navy commanders to destroy Iranian forces in the Persian ...

(U.S. Navy via AP) Those Iranian gunboats harassing U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may be fast, but they are not wise. Any day now President Trump is going to blast them out of the water.

The U.S. Navy is equipped, prepared and authorized to attack and defend against Iranian threats should that be needed, according to a recent tweet from President Trump and supporting comments from ...

Mr Trump said on Twitter: "I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea." At a briefing later, he said that he ...

Gen. Hossein Salami’s threat comes a day after President Trump said he authorized the US Navy to “destroy” any Iranian gunboats if they hound American vessels. “I have ordered our naval ...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he directed the Navy to “shoot down” Iranian gunboats that harass U.S. ships, but Pentagon officials said they’ve received no new directives.