Houthi forces transported some weapons and equipment and fortified others in anticipation of the strike.
Consequently, The Regime’s air strikes left the Houthis with an estimated 75% of missile and drone capability.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Now, who would not question whether the Kenyan moslem in the White House basement is calling the strike coordinates?
BHO used to tell ISIS where we would bomb. The war effort involved dropping leaflets warning that we would be bombing.
Informed sources told Sky News Arabia the United States informed the Houthis before carrying out air strikes on their sites in Yemen.
We know from the Wall Street Journal that the Houthis were prepped for the attack.
Maritime executives have been told by Western diplomats that targets would likely include missile and drone launch sites, radars, and weapons depots around the Yemeni cities of Hodeida and Hajjah. Infrastructure in the capital San’a is also on the list of possible targets, the executives said
As predicted, The Regime’s air strikes on the Houthis looked good on television and may have done some damage, but they did not complete the mission.
The U.S. military said Sunday it shot down an anti-ship cruise missile fired from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen toward a U.S. Navy destroyer in the southern Red Sea.
U.S. Central Command said fighter aircraft shot down the missile near the coast of the port city of Hodeida. There were no reports of injuries or damage, CENTCOM said.
If the Houthis are still able to fire cruise missiles, The Regime’s air strikes did not do their job.
According to the Pentagon, the strikes were effective in degrading the Houthi ability to attack shipping, but degrading is a long way from eliminating.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stated:
[T]he U.S. maintains its right to self-defense and, if necessary, will take follow-on actions to protect U.S. forces.
Of course, he is not going to admit he is either compromised or incompetent, or both.
The New York Times paints a grimmer picture:
The United States-led airstrikes on Thursday and Friday against sites in Yemen controlled by the Houthi militia damaged or destroyed about 90 percent of the targets struck, but the group retained about three-quarters of its ability to fire missiles and drones at ships transiting the Red Sea, two U.S. officials said on Saturday…
But the two U.S. officials cautioned on Saturday that even after hitting more than 60 missile and drone targets with more than 150 precision-guided munitions, the strikes had damaged or destroyed only about 20 to 30 percent of the Houthis’ offensive capability, much of which is mounted on mobile platforms and can be readily moved or hidden…
Finding Houthi targets is proving to be more challenging than anticipated. American and other Western intelligence agencies have not spent significant time or resources in recent years collecting data on the location of Houthi air defenses, command hubs, munitions depots and storage and production facilities for drones and missiles, the officials said…
So, once again, massive intel failures—likely as a result of Barack Hussein Obama’s traitorous moslem sympathizing.
