Date: May 7th, 2025 12:06 AM
Author: bearded property
The early signs are that this air campaign isn’t going well.
Despite the U.S. burning through finite munitions supplies at a cost of US$1 billion to bomb at least 800 sites since March 15, the Houthis are undeterred and the volume of Red Sea shipping remains as depressed as ever. Houthi attacks on U.S. ships and Israel continue. A Houthi missile narrowly missed Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport on May 4.
In fact, the direct attacks on the Houthis and the rapidly growing casualty count among Yemeni civilians from the Trump administration’s bombing campaign appear to be strengthening the Houthis’ political position in Yemen.
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/05/yemen-trump-risks-falling-airpower-trap/405064/?oref=d1-featured-river-secondary
PS strengthening your adversary politically is the opposite of the only thing war is supposed to achieve.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721105&forum_id=2E#48909953)