Links Between Houthis, Communist China Suggest Scale of Challenge Ahead for Trump as America Rebuilds Naval Prowess
America’s failure, under President Biden, to reopen the Red Sea to commerce suggests an existential crisis for the Navy.

The United States Navy’s nine-month-long skirmish with the Houthi rebels was a rude awakening, but it wasn’t an existential crisis. Using the wrong tools on the wrong mission led, not unsurprisingly, to an unsuccessful outcome: the Houthis retaining control of one of the world’s most important sea lanes. But with the election of Donald Trump, the Navy actually might have to fight for its very existence.
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