Houthis
A More Robust U.S. Presence in Somaliland Is Necessary to Handle the Logistics of Resupply and Provide Air Defense
Watch for Talk of Naval Rotations Through the Port and Emirati Moves to Expand Energy and Export Infrastructure
Somaliland Is Crucial to Winning the War Because of Its Strategic Geography, Including a 530-Mile Coastline on the Gulf of Aden
Appeasing Extremists and Terror Sponsors Seldom Brings Peace
Iran’s Ability to Command or at Least Align with Proxy and Client Forces Across the Middle East and Beyond Remains Its Most Significant Tool of Power Projection
Yanbu May Relieve Immediate Pressure, but It Does Not Remove Geopolitical Risks for Saudi Arabia
The Houthis’ Leader Has Warned That ‘Any Israeli Presence in Somaliland’ Will Become a Military Target for the Militant Group
Jerusalem Has Made Clear That Tehran’s Insistence on Linking Any Deal to a Ceasefire in Lebanon Will Not Constrain Its Response to Hezbollah Attacks
The Houthis Gave Pirates Better Tools, and Tehran Gave the Houthis Their Purpose and Their Logistics
International Humanitarian Law Prohibits Targeted Attacks on Civilians and Attacks That Cannot Distinguish Between Civilian and Military Targets
When Saudi Forces Attacked Yemen’s Southern Forces, They Left a Vacuum Into Which Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Resurged
The Regime Deliberately Unravels Nation-States from Within, To Reassemble According to Loyalties That Answer to Tehran
The Danger Is Not Just Erosion of Freedom of Navigation, but Also Iran’s Direct Financing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Terror
Escalation Along the Tihama Coast Is Part of a Coordinated Political-Military Strategy, Not Merely a Local Tactical Maneuver
The Objective Is Not Control of the Red Sea, but to Disrupt Shipping and Create Economic Pressure That Grants the Houthis Influence
The Houthis Have Avoided Making Definitive Statements About How They Might Respond If Regional Hostilities Intensify
Proxy Militias Whose Creation Predates the Islamic Republic Will Need a Concerted Effort to Combat
The Opening Day Showed a Regime Unable to Defend Its Center and Proxies Unable to Change the Trajectory of the War
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates Have Been Friends and Allies for Decades, but They Have Picked Different Sides in the Fighting in Yemen
Washington Has Misread the Houthis for Too Long