U.S. and U.K. Aircraft and Submarine Lay Waste to Houthi Strongpoints. About Time
By LUTHER RAY ABEL
January 11, 2024 11:05 PM
The U.S. and its allies have done what needed doing by striking with air and sea forces the bases and locations from which the Iran-backed Houthis have bedeviled our forces afloat and international trade in 27 separate attacks since November 19, as Dominic Pino notes. The U.K. lent military force to the effort, while Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and Bahrain contributed “non-operational support.”
Brittany Bernstein reports for National Review:
The U.S. and Britain launched air strikes in Yemen on Thursday in response to the Iran-backed Houthis’ recent attacks against vessels in the Red Sea.
The strikes came hours after White House national-security spokesman John Kirby called on the Houthis to “stop these attacks” and warned that the group would “bear the consequences for any failure to do so.”
The militants have launched 27 attacks on vessels in the Red Sea since November 19, the U.S. military said earlier on Thursday. The group says the attacks are in protest of the Israel–Hamas war.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-s-and-u-k-aircraft-and-submarine-lay-waste-to-houthi-strongpoints-about-time/
