Victoria Coates is a Distinguished Fellow in Strategic Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council and a principal member of Vi et Arte Solutions LLC. She served as deputy national-security adviser for Middle Eastern and North African affairs in the Trump administration and is the author of David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art.
Victoria Coates is a Distinguished Fellow in Strategic Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council and a principal member of Vi et Arte Solutions LLC. She served as deputy national-security adviser for Middle Eastern and North African affairs in the Trump administration and is the author of David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art.
If Iran has attempted to close the Strait of Hormuz and strangle petroleum flow to global markets, it would constitute a dramatic offensive escalation.