Welcome to the PDB Situation Report. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed.

First up, the war with Iran, perhaps you've heard about it,

enters its second week with the air campaign continuing and new attention shifting to the

increasingly volatile strait of Hormuz. We'll be joined by retired rear Admiral Mark Montgomery

to get his insight, and he's got a lot of experience and a lot of terrific insight.

Later in the show, global energy markets are rattled as the war with Iran threatens oil

supplies and shipping through the straight-upro moves.

Daniel Turner, executive director of Power, the Future, stops by to share his expertise

on the growing energy crisis.

But first, today's situation reports spotlight. We're now entering

the second week of the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran, and the military campaign continues to evolve.

Coalition airstrikes are still pounding Iranian military targets, missile sites, and infrastructure

as the effort to degrade Tehran's ability to retaliate presses on.

But increasingly, attention is shifting to the Strait of Hormuz.

Now, that's the narrow waterway that carries roughly one-fifth of the world's oil,

and not to mention LNG.

Iranian forces have stepped up attacks on commercial shipping with the regime promising to

choke off one of the most critical arteries of the global economy. It's essentially the Iranian

regime's best and possibly only leverage point at this stage. Joining us to break it down is

retired rear admiral Mark Montgomery, senior director of Foundation for the Defense of Democracy Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. Sir, thank you very much for joining us again

on the on the situation report. Thank you for having me. We should start by talking about Iran.

That seems to be the hot topic. Where this may be a strange way to phrase the question, but where do you stand on this

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