Houthis

April 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker

A Great Conversation. A Perfect Conversation. [Updated]

Featured image Our chronically clueless press was obsessed by the fact that a left-wing journalist somehow found himself part of a Signal conversation about planned attacks on the Houthis. Maybe someday we will find out how Jeffrey Goldberg turned up in that chat group, but frankly I don’t much care. The conversation conducted by Trump administration officials was terrific, and it had the right result–a long overdue, and devastating, attack on the »
October 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward

World War III Tracker

Featured image Many of the media headlines reporting on Israel’s air strikes on Iran in the middle of the night last night say something along the lines of “could lead to an escalation of the regional war.” I have news for everybody: World War III has been underway at least since October 7 of last year, whether we want to acknowledge it or not. The only question is whether its scale and »
January 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson

What we’ve got here, cont’d

Featured image Jay Solomon reports for Semafor this morning that commanders and advisers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are on the ground in Yemen and playing a direct role in Houthi rebel attacks on commercial traffic in the Red Sea. Solomon’s story is posted here. Semafor provides this summary of the story in its Principals newsletter (links omitted): Iran has deployed personnel from its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to Yemen, according »
January 15, 2024 — Scott Johnson

What we’ve got here

Featured image Via the tweet below, CentCom reports that yesterday “at 4:45 p.m. (Sanaa time), an anti-ship cruise missile was fired from Iranian-backed Houthi militant areas of Yemen toward USS Laboon (DDG 58), which was operating in the Southern Red Sea. The missile was shot down in vicinity of the coast of Hudaydah by U.S. fighter aircraft. There were no injuries or damage reported.” That is yet another in a series of »