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In June, the AP headlined its story as “In conflict with Yemen’s Houthi rebels, U.S. Navy faces most intense combat since World War II”.
“I don’t think people really understand just kind of how deadly serious it is what we’re doing and how under threat the ships continue to be,” Cmdr. Eric Blomberg with the USS Laboon told the AP on a visit to his warship on the Red Sea.
“We only have to get it wrong once,” he said. “The Houthis just have to get one through.”
The pace of the fire can be seen on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, where the paint around the hatches of its missile pods has been burned away from repeated launches. Its sailors sometimes have seconds to confirm a launch by the Houthis, confer with other ships and open fire on an incoming missile barrage that can move near or beyond the speed of sound.
“It is every single day, every single watch, and some of our ships have been out here for seven-plus months doing that,” said Capt. David Wroe, the commodore overseeing the guided missile destroyers.
How in the world is it possible that an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group out of Yemen could be subjecting the US Navy to the “most intense combat since World War II”?
The answer is partly there in the story. Instead of hitting the Houthis hard, the US Navy has been stuck playing defense as I had described in an earlier article.
After the initial wave of attacks, the US Navy shifted over to what it euphemistically called “defensive air strikes” against Houthi missiles or rockets that had already been launched or were being prepped for launch. The constant reports about “defensive air strikes” made it sound as if the United States were constantly bombing Yemen, when the US Navy had been allowed to do the bare minimum to prevent and survive more incoming attacks. It wasn’t enough.
A New York Times article on the Biden administration’s intentions stated that the strategy represents “the administration’s attempt to chip away at the Houthis’ ability to menace merchant ships and military vessels but not hit so hard as to kill large numbers of Houthi fighters and commanders, and potentially unleash even more mayhem into a region”. As if ceding the Red Sea hasn’t done that already.
The US Navy is tasked with intercepting incoming Houthi attacks. The few airstrikes that were authorized targeted Houthi rockets and radar rather than trying to do real damage.
After a Houthi drone attack hit Tel Aviv, a block away from the US Consulate building which may have been a possible target, Israel hit back, not by trying to play ‘whack-a-mole’ with the Houthis, but by going after major targets and inflicting major damage.
The IAF attack in the Hodeidah area of Yemen was carried out by 20 fighter jets, some of which were refueled in mid-air, and at a distance of more than 1,700 kilometers (1,000 miles) from Israel – 200 kilometers farther than Tehran, as confirmed by the IDF.
The port of Hodeidah is one of the main routes through which military supplies and weapons from Iran enter Yemen. About 70% of the goods arriving there go to the Houthis, who act as protection racket for the humanitarian aid arriving at the location. The strike damaged infrastructures that would affect its function as a supply route for weapons launched at Israel.
And the US Navy.
This is going to be a crucial point this week. The so-called “aid” groups will scream bloody murder and claim that Israel is causing a ‘famine’ in Yemen. (No, they don’t have any new propaganda ideas.)
Biden didn’t dare put the port out of commission because it’s where the ‘aid’ comes into Yemen. So he allowed Iran to use it to funnel weapons to the Houthis.
By hitting the port, Israel didn’t just protect its own people, but protected the US Navy.
During WW II we started cutting off the enemies supplies by attacking Trains and Truck Convoys
President Trump will end Ukraine v Russia the first week he is back in office. Getting these demonic jihadists to back down off Israel will be cutting all funds from Iran. And who knows what. Will China back off from Taiwan? With 100% tariffs to bankrupt China?
One thing is for sure, President Trump will supply Israel with all the armaments it needs!
Yeah, it’s,a lot more efficient and effective to go after each bee, one by one, than to take out the bee hive. I guess,we haven’t yet reached peak stupidity after all.
When the FIRST missile was fired at a US MILITARY VESSEL we should have inflicted so much DAMAGE that IRAN would be refunding Our Tax Dollars!! They all KNOW that the biden bunglers will do NOTHING so they continue to reek havoc! The WORLD will be SAFER and MORE PEACEFUL with PRESIDENT TRUMP back in charge!
First thing I’d do is send in the FIRST ALL TRANNY Expeditionary FORCE to show the WHOTHIS who’s who!!
I hope that The Israeli “elites” finally get it and that attack of destruction of the Houtis is the beginning of the end. The Israeli VIPs have been too busy listening to the WOKE American Left.
Sorry, but this is being blown way out of proportion. Lloyd Austin knows what he is doing. Trust him…. and pray. if he fails,there is always Antony Blinken, the BOY WONDER, to the rescue. He will just surrender to the Houthis and and the problem is resolved. It worked in Afghaniasan, didn’t it? People, ya just gotta have faith. Furthermore, these are the new, kinder, gentler, Houthis. Israel should be ashamed for wasting all that jet fuel flying all those miles to blow up up all that Houthi stuff. Remember, no matter what they do, Houthi lives matter, every one of them, and that’s not hyperbole! Peraps Joe Biden, by executive order, could establish an “Adopt a Houthi” program. Take one into your home. Oh, never mind….
The Israelis probably had humint to tell them which warehouses were being used to store the munitions, too, so they didn’t waste their time and bombs.. They didn’t bomb evacuated sites or tents, and exacted a real cost on the jihadis.