Strategic system
Energy system
The Gulf's oil and gas export system — fields, processing, terminals and the pipelines that partially bypass Hormuz — and the one part of it, LNG, that cannot be bypassed at all.
Coverage · Iran–Gulf
Context, not targeting. A system record names published markers and published operators and states dependencies at the level a published institution does. It carries no facility-level capacity, vulnerability, protection or repair detail; the schema has no field for any of it.
Strategic systems 2 of 4 carry a system record; the rest are derived from the module’s published markers and say so. A record states what the system is, its dated current state, the supply systems and operators that belong to it, and what it depends on — with every dependency marked documented or assessed.
Strategic system
Deterrence architecture
7 published markers.
Strategic system
Maritime access
The straits and approaches a Gulf cargo must pass — Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman, Bab el-Mandeb — and the Red Sea ports beside them, read as access: whether a loaded ship can sail.
Strategic system
Political / command
1 published marker.
Evidence and grading
- Documented
- A published source states this relationship.
- Assessed
- Vigil infers this relationship from the records; no source states it directly.
- Structural stub
- A record that establishes a system exists and names it, and carries only what it can support — line, basis, sources, review dates. Detailed research is not done, and the page says so rather than inventing detail.
- Confidence
- How well established Vigil considers this assessment to be. It is not a measure of how severe the situation is.