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The US Navy says it can't stop the Houthi attacks on shipping with force alone
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | August 9th. 2024 | Jake Epstein

Posted on 08/09/2024 8:34:41 PM PDT by Mariner

The US Navy's counter-Houthi mission will not be enough on its own to stop the Iran-backed rebels from attacking vulnerable merchant ships, the admiral overseeing operations in the Middle East said this week.

Vice Adm. George Wikoff, the commander of US Naval Forces Central Command, said that it will take more than force and firepower to deal with the Houthis. Rather, Washington and its allies must come up with an alternative way to apply pressure on the group.

"The solution is not going to come at the end of a weapon system," Wikoff said Wednesday at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. "It's going to be the international community."

For over eight months, US forces have been working to defend key shipping lanes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden from relentless Houthi attacks. The rebels have been using one-way attack drones, naval drones, and anti-ship missiles to threaten commercial vessels and American warships deployed in the region.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commerce; houthis; navy; redsea; shipping
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To: Mariner

Time to fire a shit load of admirals in the Navy, keep firing them till you find a c student with common sense… these political pussies poisoned the entire US Navy. Actually poisoned them. Fucking infiltrated by the CCP like Mark Kelly the traitor.


21 posted on 08/09/2024 9:11:16 PM PDT by WinstonSmith1984 (Make 1984 fiction again.)
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To: Organic Panic

Is the US Navy too busy running DEI training, pregnancy clinics and day care centers on warships to actually fight a minor dirt-bag mob like the Houtid?


22 posted on 08/09/2024 9:13:23 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: dadgum

“The Leather Neck Marines of the past curse this stupid, weak, ineffectual, limp-wristed US Navy!!!”

“I have not yet begun to fight.”
“Don’t give up the ship.”
“WE have met the enemy and they are ours”
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead”
“You may fire when ready, Gridley”

What was that quote about the Royal Navy at Crete? Something like “it takes 300 years to build a tradition, and destroy it in an afternoon”.

Goodbye to ours.


23 posted on 08/09/2024 9:18:48 PM PDT by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: Mariner

Effing morons!


24 posted on 08/09/2024 9:21:10 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Mariner

killing enough of them till they lose their will to fight has worked in the past...


25 posted on 08/09/2024 9:22:27 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Mariner

The Jefferson White House said there was no way to stop the Barbery Pirates. Jefferson himself said “nope, force isn’t going to work, it’s just folly to send Marines to the shores of Tripoli’.


26 posted on 08/09/2024 9:57:41 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Roadrunner383

And that would be ‘Barbary Pirates’.


27 posted on 08/09/2024 9:59:09 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Mariner

I demand the fag navy turn in OUR equipment and walk in the Okeechobee swamp!

FJB


28 posted on 08/09/2024 9:59:45 PM PDT by Muhammy
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To: Mariner

>> “The solution is not going to come at the end of a weapon system,” Wikoff said

Emasculated DEI faggot.


29 posted on 08/09/2024 10:01:25 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: technically right

In the weeks after 9/11 everyone had an opinion. On the Tonight Show director John Milius was asked about the difficulty of fighting the Taliban. He responded, “ We took Iwo Jima. Could the Taliban have taken Iwo Jima?” I think the question could be asked, Could we take Iwo Jima today?


30 posted on 08/09/2024 10:03:09 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Mariner

Drop the totality of U.S. federal environmental “impact statment” and “climate change” regulations . . . on them.


31 posted on 08/09/2024 10:03:23 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Mariner

Fire that Admiral and his entire staff.

L


32 posted on 08/09/2024 10:03:49 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.p)
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To: Chode

>> killing enough of them till they lose their will to fight has worked in the past...

Yeah, that’s kinda the purpose of a warfighting military, right? I think General Patton would agree.


33 posted on 08/09/2024 10:04:30 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: xkaydet65

>> I think the question could be asked, Could we take Iwo Jima today?

Damn good question, and I’m afraid the answer is “NO”.


34 posted on 08/09/2024 10:08:05 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Mariner

True or not true what is his business saying this. It’s not his job.


35 posted on 08/09/2024 10:16:24 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Democrat = party of treason
Maybe send some Navy guys in skirts to go talk to them...

Well, the gay is strong with Vice (ooh! fabulous! VICE) Admiral George Jerkoff, maybe he'd wear the skirt for America...

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36 posted on 08/09/2024 10:16:50 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Mariner

The reason these dung piles can accomplish their desires is because they are housed in a safe environment and the US can’t attack without a declaration of war. And you can stop that with withholding of money, trade, and diplomaic security.

If you make it hard enough for the people protecting the terrorists so that it isn’t worth keeping them in a safe haven, then they have to expell the trash to regain things withdrawn. Make it hurt, and they will do the job for you.

It is physically imposible to kill all the terrorists even in a particular sect. They are scattered all over the world.

Look at 911. Al Qaeda was originally based in the Sudan and moved to Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban when Russia pulled out. They draw from countries all over the muslum world and they are trained in many different countries to include the US. Osama was killed in Pakistan and Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan. The current, Saif al-Adel, was last seen based in Somalia. They’re all over so stopping them isn’t going to be accomplished by trying to kill them if they can be hidden. So take away that opportunity.

wy69


37 posted on 08/09/2024 10:22:09 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: zeestephen

>> Hunt down and kill every man in the Houti leadership.

That strategy appears to be helpful to the Israelis.

But it’s icky... doesn’t set well in the delicate tummies of the faggot/tranny filth in charge of the USN.


38 posted on 08/09/2024 10:24:04 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick

i know, right? and General Curtis LeMay...


39 posted on 08/09/2024 10:27:27 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

... and Gen. Schwarzkopf.


40 posted on 08/09/2024 10:37:05 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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