Posted on 01/03/2025 9:05:20 AM PST by Retain Mike
The Houthis might take the top award in 2024 for the Navy’s most persistent problem. The Iran-backed organization startled the international world toward the end of 2023 but solidified itself as a threat to commercial shipping in 2024.
Over the course of last year, the U.S. with its allies and partners continued Operation Prosperity Guardian, a collaboration created in December 2023 meant to deter Houthi attacks against commercial shipping. The year also saw the U.S. take a more offensive role by striking a number of Houthi weapons and facilities, saying that they were defensive actions. In responding to the new threat in the Middle East, the Navy had to adjust its carrier schedules and deployments, pulling from the West Coast in order to provide coverage.
The first couple of months of 2024 saw nonstop Houthi attacks. As 2024 tipped into the second half, Houthi attacks began to slow as the Yemen-based group moved to attack Israel instead of commercial shipping. That change reflected the American approach to the Middle East, shifting West Coast-based carriers to cover the gap left behind Ike’s departure and then allowing destroyers to defend the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without a carrier.
The U.S. ended 2024 with a carrier strike group – the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group – back in the Red Sea.
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Starts with Arab governments joining up to clear them of the ayatollahs.
when your country has trouble fighting the ubangees or whatever the hell they call themselves, you know you’re in trouble. A healthy military could end them in 4 minutes.
They are PIRATES.
Linebacker III
Punitive, not defensive.
One of the biggest unreported stories of last year is America’s inaction as the Houthi’s closed critical shipping lanes through the Suez Canal. This caused prices to rise as ships diverted around Capetown. The only question that needs answering is how did it benefit the regime running the Biden Administration?
Substitute ‘Iranians’ for ‘Houthis’ and you will have a more accurate picture.
I have a feeling that this will not be the top story of 2025.
America's "inaction" was a solid policy decision by an administration that didn't make many of them.
The U.S. didn't do anything to deal with the Houthis because the U.S. had no legal or diplomatic standing to protect ships that weren't flying U.S. flags and were not assets of U.S. companies.
In the 19th century, after we and the Brits worked out our problems and learned how to play well together, this crap never would have happened. The US Navy and the Royal Navy would have gotten together and performed a very quick extermination. Indeed that’s exactly what we did to Isis. It’s not been done to the Houthis simply because the Biden regime didn’t want to. It has nothing to do with the Houthis being a tough nut to crack for A US carrier group given the authority and permission to do that.
it just royally pisses me off that these toothless, inbred 40IQ savages are even causing us any pain. Insects.
If commercial ships in the Red Sea can’t be effectively protected by US Navy escort ships, then neither can US Navy aircraft carriers.
The US Navy needs to be made war ready.
They’re trying to crash the system, plain and simple.
“the U.S. had no legal or diplomatic standing to protect ships that weren’t flying U.S. flags and were not assets of U.S. companies.”
Are the Houthis going to sue us if we shoot down a missile that would otherwise destroy itself and an innocent commercial vessel mere seconds later?
1. It’s owned by a Danish company.
2. It sails under a Panamanian flag.
3. It has a Filipino crew.
4. Its next (or last) port call is in Europe (Rotterdam, for example).
With all of this in mind, why would you suggest that the U.S. taxpayer should spend even a nickel to defend this ship from Houthi rebel attacks — especially when you consider that these global shipping companies go to great lengths to operate outside U.S. jurisdiction so they aren’t subject to U.S. taxes and regulatory oversight?
Trjump will exterminate them in 24 hours.
Wouldn’t that be a sight. Doing that in real life would send the only message these cretin sub-humans understand. You don’t tell a dog to stop peeing on the carpet, you grab his neck, smash it in the pee, yell-NO!” and snack his ass. You only have to do that once.
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