We've always taken the freedom of the seas seriously. Or we used to.
Unless the US and the UK are willing to put boots on the ground to clean out the multiple Houthi nests, these attacks will continue. Also the Houthis are achieving their strategic goals using relatively low cost weaponry. The defensive missiles on the US ships being used at a prodigious rate are extremely expensive. Suspect well over $100 million already has spent keeping those US Navy ships on station added to the cost of ordinance fired.
“We’ve always taken freedom of the seas seriously.”
Are you saying that the UnitedStates needs to/must police the world ?
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