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“I don't think 2,500 [US] Marines will make any difference whatsoever to opening up the strait.” Andreas Krieg, Associate Professor at King's College London, says that US plans to deploy 2,500 marines to the Gulf is unlikely to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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