The ragtag Yemeni militia’s self-imposed partial blockade of Red Sea waters to Israeli, US and ‘Israeli-linked’ commercial shipping over the past year has humbled Israel’s powerful American allies, with Western warship deployments and attempts to “degrade” the militia’s capabilities proving fruitless to date.
The US military is “locked in a dangerous stalemate” in its campaign against the Houthis, proving “unable to effectively stop the rebels from attacking ships,” and at the same time “unlikely” to be given a free hand for all-out war against the group, a top mainstream US business publication has suggested.