Yemen’s Houthi fighters, a ragtag militia of 50,000 per the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ 2024 tally, have turned the Red Sea into a chokehold on 12% of global trade, per the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s 2024 “Review of Maritime Transport.” Since November 2023, their Iranian-supplied missiles and drones—over 100 attacks, … Leggi tutto The Houthi Gambit: Asymmetric Leverage, U.S. Naval Overreach and China’s Strategic Harvest