Tensions growing off Gibraltar

[W.G.Ewald]

Gibraltar: Tensions grow after Royal Navy confronts Spanish warship | Mail Online

A Spanish warship has been confronted by the Royal Navy near Gibraltar amid growing tensions around the UK outpost.

The armed patrol vessel, which typically carries special forces and marines, was spotted cruising irregularly and warned repeatedly to leave British waters.

Last night, the Foreign Office lodged a diplomatic protest with Madrid over the most serious episode of sabre-rattling off the Rock in half a century.

 

[Yusuf]

Two nations, one failed economy and another struggling fighting over rocks!!

 

[binayak95]

What's Gibraltar's present strategic importance?? In WWII it was one of two allied chokepoints for convoys between Axis-controlled Europe and North Africa. But why fight over that island base now??

 

[Yusuf]

What's Gibraltar's present strategic importance?? In WWII it was one of two allied chokepoints for convoys between Axis-controlled Europe and North Africa. But why fight over that island base now??

It's location

 

[Daredevil]

What's Gibraltar's present strategic importance?? In WWII it was one of two allied chokepoints for convoys between Axis-controlled Europe and North Africa. But why fight over that island base now??

Most strategic location from which transport to european countries can be choked off completely. It has a similar importance like strait of hormuz/Malacca straits - choking points.

 

[binayak95]

Most strategic location from which transport to european countries can be choked off completely. It has a similar importance like strait of hormuz/Malacca straits - choking points.

Whom are the British going to blockade?? the French or the Germans!!