Military Refuses to Provide Details About Ongoing Bombing Campaign in Yemen
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
Published April 17, 2025 at 5:27pm ET
More than a month after announcing an indefinite bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Defense Department has offered little information and the command overseeing the campaign is refusing to answer even basic questions on what U.S. forces have accomplished in the area or whether troops have been under fire or injured.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees all military operations in the Middle East, has spent the past 30 days making near-daily social media posts about its operations against the Houthis, but those posts have been little more than videos of flight operations on the aircraft carrier in the region and generic statements capped off with the hashtag "HouthisAreTerrorists."
While some level of secrecy or information delay has always been part of military operations, the shift to actively refusing to provide even the most basic details about what service members are doing in a major military operation -- the size of which has likely not been undertaken in years -- is highly unusual. It's also paired with a near-total lack of press briefings by the Pentagon's top spokesman and a growing number of reports that the mission is not accomplishing any of its broader goals.
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