How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea
For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in self-defense, defense of merchants, and defense of allied territory against the Houthis, a Yemeni militant group that sought to deny the Red Sea to global commerce. And yet if we take the goal of Operation Prosperity Guardian as being the resumption of commercial traffic through a key global artery in support of the rules-based international order, it can only be judged as a strategic defeat. Protecting maritime commerce is the kind of global public good The post How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea appeared first on War on the Rocks.
For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in self-defense, defense of merchants, and defense of allied territory against the Houthis, a Yemeni militant group that sought to deny the Red Sea to global commerce. And yet if we take the goal of Operation Prosperity Guardian as being the resumption of commercial traffic through a key global artery in support of the rules-based international order, it can only be judged as a strategic defeat. Protecting maritime commerce is the kind of global public good
The post How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea appeared first on War on the Rocks.
