Hormuz

HORMUZ
Where the Old Order Went Under

On 28 February 2026, the world did not end.

But something fundamental began to change.

For nearly eighty years, the global order rested on assumptions so familiar they felt like laws of nature. Oil flowed through the Strait of Hormuz. The world's trade routes remained open. The dollar sat at the centre of the international financial system. Behind it all stood the belief that the strongest military power on Earth could ultimately guarantee the outcomes it desired.

Then the Strait of Hormuz became the centre of a crisis that challenged those assumptions.

In HORMUZ: Where the Old Order Went Under, I. N. Paradise examines the conflict that exposed a new reality of twenty-first-century power. A relatively weak state, employing inexpensive drones, missiles, asymmetric tactics, and geographic leverage, demonstrated that overwhelming military superiority does not automatically translate into political success.

This is not a story about the defeat of a superpower.

It is a story about the limits of power itself.

Through the lens of history, economics, military strategy, energy security, and global finance, the book explores how a narrow stretch of water only twenty-one miles wide became the focal point of a much larger transformation. From the arithmetic of cheap warfare to the fragility of global supply chains, from the strategic importance of chokepoints to the growing challenge to dollar dominance, HORMUZ traces the forces reshaping the international order.

Written while the consequences are still unfolding, this is not a verdict from the future. It is a dispatch from the turning point itself.

The old order did not disappear overnight.

But in Hormuz, it began to go under.

For readers of geopolitics, military history, economics, international relations, and the future of global power.