Houthi terrorists, according to the Pentagon, are still capable of carrying out significant attacks on shipping in the Red Sea—despite recent U.S. bombardment of their positions in Yemen. The threat to shipping has seen civilian crews abandoning ship, and downed multi-million-dollar U.S. drones.
Retired Capt. James Fanell, the former director of intelligence for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, told NTD that pressure needs to be put on Iran and its backers, because protecting individual ships one at a time is ineffective.