The Washington Post reported on January 21 that Biden is preparing a military operation against the Houthi forces in Yemen to prevent them from carrying out threatening operations in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
Biden's security team and senior Defense Department leaders agreed that they should continue to launch protracted attacks against the Houthis in addition to diplomacy. This does not mean that the United States will send land forces to Yemen, but rather that it will reduce the strength of the Houthis by increasing the scale and number of airstrikes.
The aim of the United States is to "neutralize the impact of the Houtha*** force on the shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, or to make them feel a great deterrent from the United States and the West, so that these risk-daunting ships can return to the region."
If true, the report shows that the United States has decided to crack down on the Houthis more harshly, lest its "Red Sea" operations wreak havoc on the region's economy and the world.
When does the United States plan to start this activity? How long does it last? U.S. officials say the schedule still needs to be negotiated by the allies and that a decision must be made in due course. As for the deadline, the United States said the military exercises would not be postponed for years, as was the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it did not give a specific deadline for withdrawal.
According to estimates from the American side, the number of rockets fired by the Houthis has lost 25%. Moreover, in recent days, the Houthis have not continued to hijack or attack civilian ships, on the one hand, because the United States has premeditated and launched air strikes after detecting some of the Houthi missiles and drones. This approach looks a little better now, as the Houthis have very limited resistance to air power.
In the author's opinion, the Houthis' activity on the Red Sea route was significantly reduced after a joint US-British air attack, indicating the success of its attack. But much more needs to be done to regain the confidence of shipping companies around the world in the Red Sea, and that is to make Houthi missiles and drones more powerful.