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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by Cyph0n on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:08PM (#38917397)
Due to their histories, the Yemenis - like the Afghan - have extensive experience using guerilla tactics against better equipped occupiers. Top it off with the mountainous terrain in the northern and eastern regions and you have a recipe for failure through attrition.
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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by dragonwriter on Monday January 08, 2024 @04:54PM (#38918729)
Guerilla tactics don't work against shipping lanes and no one (well, not the coalition to defend shipping, at least, certain of their neighbors might have other thoughts) wants to occupy Yemen in the first place.
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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by hattmall on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:26PM (#38919165)
Flying cheap drones with homemade explosives into commercial cargo ships sound pretty guerilla.
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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by throwaway29812 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:29PM (#38930717)
Why can't the west use radio jammers to make any drone non-responsive once it leaves Yemen ? Russia has been doing this on its border with great success.
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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by hattmall on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @12:58PM (#38941218)
I think it's just a very large area and jamming is far from fool proof.
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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by JumpCrisscross on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:18PM (#38917527)
> extensive experience using guerilla tactics against better equipped occupiers

That’s fine. Let them fight their civil war. The problem is long-range precision warfare extending past their costs. Knocking out that capability doesn’t require boots on the ground.

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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by Cyph0n on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:57PM (#38917983)
You underestimate how important the Palestinian cause is to the Yemeni people. I’d wager they’d be willing to “pause” the infighting for quite some time.

Also, this move is making the Houthis immensely popular: they are winning the PR war internally right now.

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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by JumpCrisscross on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:31PM (#38919238)
> this move is making the Houthis immensely popular: they are winning the PR war internally right now

As I mentioned elsewhere [1], this is fine. A stable, adversarial Yemen is better than the clusterfuck it currently is. A big part of the problem with the current situation is there is nobody to negotiate with who can credibly claim to control these armed factions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917581

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