The Houthis are fighting more and more fiercely, bombing and indiscriminately bombing US warships in the Red Sea, but what the outside world did not expect is that the US military ran away in a smoke, is this an admission that they can't even beat an irregular army?
Recently, Yemen's Houthi rebels launched attacks through their massive use of drones and missiles, including 139 ballistic missiles, 10 cruise missiles, 10 anti-ship missiles, and 372 drones, as well as 26 unmanned attack boats, resulting in the sinking of 2 cargo ships and the damage to 30 cargo ships.
Although the U.S. aircraft carrier successfully intercepted the vast majority of missiles and drones launched by the Houthis, from a broader perspective, the U.S. military's so-called "Guardian of Prosperity" operation is doomed to failure.
Container traffic in the Red Sea has plummeted by 90 percent, and control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea route has effectively fallen into the hands of the Houthis, according to the data.
Against this background, the USS Eisenhower, which had been deployed in the Red Sea for eight months, decided to leave this place of right and wrong.
After the withdrawal of US troops, the Houthis did not stop their attacks and continued to launch attacks on Western freighters in the Red Sea, further exacerbating regional tensions and uncertainty in international trade. This ongoing instability shows that even with the intervention of Western forces such as the US military, the deep-seated causes of regional conflicts remain unresolved.
At the same time, conflicts in other parts of the Middle East are escalating. The Iraqi Resistance has not only posed a direct challenge to the U.S. military through drone raids on U.S. military bases, but also complicates the regional security situation.
For Iraqi resistance, its attacks on U.S. forces are not only a revolt against its long occupation, but also a reflection of rising nationalist and anti-imperialist sentiment in the Middle East.
Judging from the actual situation, the US military has lost its dominant advantage in the Red Sea, and the three major weapons deployed by the Houthis: hypersonic missiles, unmanned boats and drones, constitute a dead end for US ships.
First of all, the missile squadron relied on by the Houthis, with hypersonic missiles as the spearhead, combined with the widespread use of home-made missiles, highlights that small-scale armed forces can also make breakthroughs in modern high-tech warfare with both qualitative and quantitative guarantees. These missiles not only increase the range and capabilities of the Houthis, but also pose a huge challenge to the enemy's air defenses.
Secondly, it is worth special analysis of the new high-speed armed unmanned boats recently introduced by the Houthis. According to the data released by the Houthis, this unmanned boat has a speed of 35 knots and a load of 150 kilograms of ammunition, and its performance is comparable to similar unmanned boats developed by the United States and Western countries with support for Ukraine, indicating that the Houthis are quite flexible in the practical application of new military technology.
The use of such unmanned boats not only provides the Houthis with a low-cost but highly effective means of attacking at sea, but also demonstrates their practical ability to successfully apply guerrilla tactics to naval combat.
Finally, the overwhelming swarm of drones undoubtedly provides a new perspective for the Houthis' maritime guerrilla warfare. These UAVs not only increase the density of strikes against enemy targets, but also greatly deplete the enemy's high-value defense resources through low-cost modes of operation.
The use of this tactic fully shows that even the side that is not technologically superior can achieve the effect of subverting the traditional battlefield balance through the clever use of strategy.
From a historical point of view, the Houthis' ability to launch effective strikes against U.S. aircraft carriers not only highlights their extraordinary military strategy, but also a powerful challenge to the post-World War II military balance at sea. The success of the Houthis lies not in how advanced their weapons are, but in how they use their limited resources to the best of their game.
Taken together, the military tactics of the Houthis and the use of their weapons systems provide a vivid example of "asymmetric strikes" for countries around the world.
Although the major armed groups in the Middle East are not regular armies, they are large enough that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of armed forces can be in place at any time, and they also have missiles, drones, rocket artillery, and other weapons of mass destruction.
When a brigade of the US military enters the battlefield, I am afraid that it will have to shed its skin, and it is difficult to say whether it will come out alive or not. This is because the US military has to face not only the Middle East battlefield, but also the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, and even has to spare strength to seek confrontation with the PLA in the Taiwan Strait.
The so-called "people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants", the United States is obsessed with pushing hegemonism back to its peak era, so it has overdrawn its national strength to expand its layout on a global scale, and now the failure in the Red Sea is a painful lesson.