TRUMP: ‘WE’VE PUT A MAJOR HURT ON THE HOUTHIS’: There was a time when, if the U.S. was engaged in a major air campaign involving more than one aircraft carrier, cruise missile firing warships, and land-based fighter jets, B2 bombers, and attack drones, the Pentagon would provide regular briefings and the military commands would issue news releases to inform the American public how the war was going.
But aside from a one-sentence statement from the U.S. Central Command announcing a “large scale operation against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen” on March 15 and a single Pentagon briefing two days later, there has been a virtual blackout on what’s being accomplished by the daily air attacks aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.
