by CBD
Listen to Michael Walsh on the CutJibNewsletter podcast about the feminization of our military, and this pathetic display of military weakness will make perfect sense.
The maniacal Houthis are playing in the big leagues by limiting global trade with their ragtag military and some modern missiles and drones supplied by…you guessed it…Iran! But they aren’t a big league team, and the curious inability of the American military to do much of anything against them is a searing indictment of the current crop of political cronies and fellow travelers in the upper reaches of our armed forces.
Another US Strike in Yemen But Little Evidence Military Operations Are Deterring Houthis
Major Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters on Monday that the strike involved 15 Houthi targets across five locations, and those targets included “offensive military capabilities, to include Houthi training and weapons storage facilities.” He said “initial assessments are that we had good effects on that.”However, the strike involving Navy ships and Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles follows a year of U.S. military operations in the Red Sea aimed at fending off Houthi attacks, yet the rebels have continued to lob missiles and send drones to harass merchant ship traffic.
A year of operations against a 5th rate military that has no air force and is supplied by a single country, and we have failed. whoever planned those operations should be sacked. Whoever looked at the first strikes and didn’t fire the planners should be sacked. In fact, everyone involved should be sacked and maybe the United States Military should reach back into its history and find some retired O5s who know how to kill people and break things.
At least we are burning through our stocks of stupidly expensive smart weapons so Raytheon and Boeing and Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman can sell us some more stuff at inflated rates, far behind schedule!
Shipping data shows that the number of vessels crossing the Suez Canal, a key passage that is near the area of the Red Sea where Houthis are targeting ships, fell by about half at the end of 2023 and has yet to recover to original levels.Salvatore Mercogliano, a maritime historian and former merchant mariner, told Military.com on Tuesday that despite the fact that “the Houthi attacks are infrequent and seldom effective, with two ships sunk and four mariners killed, [they] have provided enough of a risk to deter shipping companies from risking their high-value ships sailing via the Red Sea.”
Mecogliano said the impact has been that “the Houthis have pinched off 15% of world trade, sending the most valuable ships on a detour that has added time, cost, carbon emissions and risk in sailing in the Southern Ocean during wintertime.”
Hah…they can even drag “Global Warming” into this clusterf*ck! 15% of world trade is a very big deal, and the Houthis should have been destroyed in the first month they played their little game
“We’re not seeking a full-out war with the Houthis, but we will continue to conduct strikes against the kinds of capabilities that we’ve seen them use against innocent mariners and maritime traffic as well as military vessels,” Ryder said.
Oh good! Just a little war, with tea and scones in the afternoon and no bad guys being killed because that would be mean! let’s blow up some empty warehouses and goatherd huts…that’ll scare ’em!
If the Israelis could trust us, I bet they could provide very valuable intel on where the weapons and launchers are. If we had that information, we should launch an all-out airstrike against the targets and any infrastructure we could find. The penalty for targeting free shipping, much less a single USN vessel, should be devastating.
For this, we’ll have to wait until the morons are gone.
They are very smart not to trust us, that information would be on the front page of the NY Times in 15 minutes along with our assets being used and when to the second. We not only need some retired O5’s but a huge number of retired NCO’s to whip the soyboyz into shape. A few real Generals and Admirals wouldn’t hurt either.
Once again the armchair tacticians displayed their ignorance of our ability (even UNCLASSIFIED), initiative and ability to inflict enormous damage and violence in a short period of time .
We use sledgehammers on nails and send multi-$M dollars missiles when equally effective, just as accurate, JDAMs with a GPS nose kit, would do at less the $2k/target for a 500lb bomb. A strike to knock out their EW by F-35s and EF-18s assets followed 200-300 JDAMS on F-18s, F-35s, B-2s and B-52s with a CEP of sufficient accuracy three days in row would turn the sand n*****rs to dust.
Then if it continues, every village of over 500 would be hit with cluster bombs. Inflict unimaginable pain n demonstrate we are tired of being f***** with.
For full effect, if u really want to make the point; 2 JASSM or LRASM’s to hit one of Iran’s Siemens power plants in the oil facilities systems that pump their oil from Iran. They take $Ms to replace and at least 2 years to manufacture.
Overnight BDA would show every hit/miss and allow rapid retargeting to hit the remainder of the surviving target set.
Solutions are generally pretty straightforward, finding the courage to give a clear, resounding FU to the remainder of the hairless balled politicians in the US and the EU is the real problem.
Read the Quran, find out the mental mindset why it took almost 800 years to get Muslims out of Europe the first time: Charles the Great (later Charlemagne), Vlad the Impaler (Dracula origin) and others took a long time and a great effort.
Oh! And have a nice day.
People keep making the mistake of thinking that other people think just like themselves.
Israel just kicked UNRWA out of it’s compound in Jerusalem.
Why have spies in your backyard?
Especially when the spies are ~$7 million in arears on their rent.
The land will be now used to house 1,440 families in soon-to-be-built low cost apartments.
The Houthis live in a sand desert.
You can’t bomb them out.
They come out the next day and ask, did some of these dunes move overnight?
You’ve got to cut off their funding.
That’s Iran.