News - Yemen: The American confessions of the difficulty of the maritime confrontation with the Yemeni Armed Forces, and the failure of the United States to establish a "deterrent" that stops the Yemeni front supporting Gaza, have turned the White House's efforts into a quagmire that drains the American military capabilities more than the Ukrainian front.

"The Wall Street Journal" published a report this week, stating that "it is not common for a US Navy destroyer returning from a routine deployment to make headlines, but the return of the USS Carney to the homeland was worth attention; because the US naval forces are fighting at a pace not seen since World War II".

The report explained that "the USS Carney destroyer recently arrived at a Florida port after a 235-day deployment, much of which was spent confronting Yemeni drones and missiles."

The report quoted Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the US Navy's operations chief, as saying that the ship "engaged in 51 encounters in 6 months".

The report added that "the last time our naval forces were directly engaged with the enemy to this degree was on the return journey during World War II, and it was then the USS Hugh Hadley destroyer, with a record of 23 engagements," noting that this was in May 1945.

The report quoted the commander of the destroyer Carney as saying that his forces had only nine seconds or a little more to deal with the Yemeni anti-ship missile attacks.

The Wall Street Journal report explained that "the Biden administration does not have a clear plan to eliminate the threat now that its international naval alliance and air strikes have clearly failed."

The report questioned, "Will Biden allocate defense funds to refill US weapons stockpiles? Where destroyers rely on advanced precision missiles to shoot down cheap drones."

It added that "despite all the panic that the war in Ukraine is depleting America's arsenals, Biden's failures to deter in the Red Sea can ultimately damage US military readiness more than years of ground war in Eastern Europe."

Over the past weeks and months, US Navy officers have made candid admissions, describing the confrontation with Yemen as "the greatest challenge the US Navy has faced in modern history," confirming that this is the first time American warships at sea have faced almost daily ballistic missile attacks.

US officials have acknowledged in recent times that the United States alone cannot face Yemeni naval operations, and they have also acknowledged that the US military does not have any intelligence information about the nature and size of the Yemeni military arsenal.

Last week, a senior US Defense Department official confirmed that Yemen possesses weapons capable of reaching the Mediterranean Sea, acknowledging that this is a concern for the United States.

Since the Zionist aggression on Gaza began, the Yemeni Armed Forces have launched three escalation stages against the Zionist enemy entity, starting with the maritime navigation ban for the Zionist entity in the Red Sea, then the navigation of ships affiliated with the enemy.

With the continuation of the Zionist aggression on Gaza, the Armed Forces expanded their operations to include enemy navigation in the Arabian Sea, reaching the Indian Ocean, and targeting the ships of the US-British aggression in response to their aggression against Yemen.