Popular Mechanics

Over 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs rained down on the military assets of Houthi militants in Yemen on Friday morning—a substantial retaliation by the U.S. and British military following over two months of continual Houthi drone and missile attacks on civilian and military shipping in the Red Sea.

The Houthis, who control most of western Yemen, had declared open season on supposedly Israel-linked shipping and escorting warships in the Red Sea in response to Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. Those waters are undeniably economically important, as 30 percent of the planet’s container shipping traverses through them.

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