Saudi forces retake Mocha to secure the southern gate
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces expelled Iran-backed Houthis from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, proving that regional chokepoints are won on capabilities and lost on illusions.
By Tom Beckwith ·
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Houthis seize Mayun Island as US and Saudi Arabia fail
If you want to know the price of a mistake made by people in air-conditioned offices who have never seen a basis chart or a dry well, you don’t look at a press release.
By Ruth Behrens ·
Houthis seized the Bab al-Mandab and the global economy's keys
The world is treating the current collapse in Yemen as a humanitarian tragedy—which it is—but that is a category error.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Houthis seize Bab al-Mandab to break the Saudi will
The global North has a particular kind of amnesia when it comes to the waters of the South.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Houthis seize Perim Island, and the US is practicing abdication
The seizure of Perim Island is not a mere footnote in a localized civil war; it is a strategic lever being pressed against the throat of the global economy.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Houthis seize Mocha and render Yemen's government a fiction
The map of the Red Sea has just been rewritten, and the ink is the blood of 20,000 displaced civilians.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Houthis seize Mocha to hold the global economy hostage
When you want to understand a war, don’t look at the map in a briefing room; look at what the people on the ground have lost. In the port of Mocha, that loss looks like 14,000 destroyed motorcycles.
By Alma Cordero ·