Recently, the United States has intensified its land attacks on the Houthis in Yemen, mainly to strike its missile launch positions, these command units of Yemen, its radar positions and drone launch points, and related warehouses. Why, then, did he step up his attack on the ground when he could not guarantee safety in the maritime direction?
Because we know that when attacking at sea, the Yemeni Houthis have many means, it can use suicide boats, it can use shore-to-ship missiles, of course, its missiles are relatively rudimentary, and there is also a drone, which has a variety of means to strike at the United States and related merchant ships.
The Sword Project As a defensive side, although the United States has a very advanced defense, including missile IC, the last line of defense is the Phalanx or the standard missiles intercepted in front, such as the Mark 6 is an anti-aircraft missile, and of course there are other types of missiles that can be defended.
For example, a missile on the US side is millions of dollars, while the Houthis in Yemen may be less than $10,000, this kind of rudimentary missile or cheaper suicide drone, this is not that the United States cannot afford to drag it, but that the blow of these funds cannot effectively ensure the safety of passing merchant ships, and cannot guarantee the safe navigation of US ** ships.
So how to solve this problem? It is to attack, to destroy all these firing positions, missile firing positions, and these warehouses where ammunition is stored by the Houthis in Yemen, because you can't launch at all, so as to ensure the safety of the shipping lane.
So in the future, if the United States wants to ensure the security of the sea lanes in the Red Sea, that is, American ships or Israeli ships, it must destroy these armed forces of the Houthis in Yemen on land, but it cannot do it.
If he doesn't use troops like Marines or ground forces to clear up, he can't control a large area like North Yemen, and once he sends troops to North Yemen, or if Yemen and the Houthis attack, then he can't afford this kind of ground warfare.
Because the area of North Yemen is also very large, there are a lot of these Yemeni Houthi people, that is, the armed personnel and the people are mixed together, then he may be a target, and the losses will be very huge, so it may not launch this kind of ground offensive, but if you don't carry out a ground offensive, you can't stop the Houthi attack on the Red Sea region. If you want to ensure the security of the Red Sea, you must eliminate the Houthis, so now, despite the American escort formation, these other big transport companies still dare not go to the Red Sea, then these American merchant ships are not safe. If the Palestinian-Israeli conflict does not end, the Houthi strike in Yemen will not end.
Now in the process, the United States and Britain have launched an attack on him, which is another aggravation of the contradictions between them, and it has become a new one. In that case, it is quite possible that the security of the Red Sea will also pose a threat to the merchant ships of the United States and related countries in the coming period.
Therefore, in the future, the United States may want to increase the number of ships escorted by its ships and the deployment of its military forces in the Red Sea region, but it will not be able to completely solve the threat of the Houthis on land.