Instigating a "hornet's nest", the United States may take military action against the Houthis?
According to multiple reports, the Pentagon is planning strikes against ground targets of the Houthis. Every indication is that war is imminent.
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates, the Houthis' support for Hamas has become apparent, with cruise and ballistic missiles continuing to strike Israeli cities. Despite the uncertainty of the effectiveness of the strike, their resolute stance has never wavered. In the course of their operations against Israel, the Houthis have even carried out multiple strikes in the Red Sea against Israeli-flagged merchant ships. Although the United States sent destroyers to escort the ship, Houthi ballistic missiles were able to accurately strike as far as 11 nautical miles from the American ship. The slightest mistake could put the American destroyer in danger.
To defend merchant ships, Israel sent 4 Saar-6 frigates, but to no avail. Recently, Britain and France have also joined the escorts, and the United States is preparing to form a joint maritime fleet to defend against ballistic missile attacks by the Houthis and defend passing ships. However, it seems that the effect of this initiative is not significant at the moment.
Surprisingly, the Houthis succeeded in striking a container ship with ballistic missiles, creating the world's first miracle of hitting a moving target at sea. For the United States, there does not seem to be an effective means in the face of the Houthis at the moment. Combined naval fleets and drone reconnaissance failed to stop the Houthi attack. Coupled with the fact that the Houthis have made remarkable progress in aerial reconnaissance and strikes at sea, especially multiple ballistic missile and rocket attacks, and frequent drone attacks, the United States faces considerable challenges.
If they rely only on maritime defense, the Houthis will maintain an active posture and autonomously use various ** and equipment to carry out multiple rounds of strikes against sea targets. Although the current successful hit on the merchant ship is only an isolated case, it may have a similar effect on various types of ** in the future.
Due to the difficulty of effective defense of drones and other equipment, the dozens of attacks currently used may evolve into "swarm" tactics in the next time, and hundreds of them will attack continuously, further increasing the probability of attacks by the fleets of the United States, Israel, Britain, and France.
Therefore, the United States believes that action is necessary to stop the Houthis, support Israel, and ensure the safety of merchant ships in the Red Sea. Through aerial reconnaissance, we learned in detail about various missile positions, launchers, and ground facilities, and then carried out air strikes and cruise missile attacks on land, and carried out targeted strikes against the Houthi infrastructure, missile positions, and other major targets, and achieved certain results.
The United States believes that the fundamental containment of the Houthis is the solution, and that substantial results can be achieved by forcefully striking ground targets. In short, a war campaign against the Houthis in the Middle East could provoke a major conflict. The United States said it had warned Tehran about Iran's anti-American and anti-Israeli actions in the surrounding region.
The Houthis' ** equipment has close ties to Iran, similar to Hamas's rockets. A strike on the Houthis could trigger a new climax of attacks on Israeli and American bases in the Middle East in the surrounding region.
The Houthis are widely distributed, especially around the Persian Gulf. Sneak attacks on US bases and facilities are its forte, while US warplanes and destroyers are at a clear disadvantage. The Houthis have shown an excellent track record against Saudi Arabia in the past, and if they carry out a multifaceted attack on the United States, the Houthis will carefully plan and design it, and will not show weakness easily, especially when they know that they are escorted by the United States, and they will support Hamas and attack Red Sea merchant ships.
Dismantling the whole into scattered attacks and using various ** equipment to carry out precision strikes on US bases and personnel will become a "hornet's nest" crisis facing the United States, and once a strike is taken against the Houthis, it may face retaliation at multiple points, which will be the beginning of the nightmare of the United States in the Middle East.