The American magazine “National Interest” acknowledged the success Yemeni forces have achieved with their capabilities and what they represent for the US Navy in recent times, stating: “It is regrettable that the Houthis have succeeded in mastering a set of capabilities that make them a growing and serious threat to the U.S. Navy.”
Translation – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
A national security analyst in the newspaper (Brandon J. Weichert) affirmed that the development of Sana’a’s forces and the deployment of anti-ship ballistic missiles have led to “complicating the ability of the American Navy to enforce its power on vital waterways in the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea,” and this is an admission of the extent of the failure of American forces that were deployed to protect “Israeli navigation” following the “Al-Aqsa Flood” in Gaza.
The American newspaper’s national security analyst said: “If the Houthis can complicate the U.S. Navy’s ability to reliably project power into regions near their coasts, you can bet that China will have little problem with keeping the U.S. Navy surface fleet over the horizon while the Chinese army controls its region.”
In the same context, the same magazine quoted Captain Justin Smith of the US Navy, commander of the destroyer “USS Mason,” as saying that he “could not believe the extent of the threat posed by the Houthi anti-ship ballistic weapons on his ship.”
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