01 · The Library — Systems & Power
This Will Be The Never-Ending War
Nobody can locate the beginning of the circle anymore — and the circle doesn’t particularly want to be located
It is night over the Strait of Hormuz, June 9, and a US Army Apache helicopter is flying low over the water, escorting oil tankers through a waterway that has been closed since winter. The mission it belongs to does not officially exist. Fighter jets and helicopters have been shepherding commercial ships through the strait for weeks, defending them from Iranian drones and missiles, and the public knows none of this.
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