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.

U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in 2012. U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons

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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