The US attacks two more Houthi targets in Yemen.

The United States has struck two Houthi anti-ship missiles in Yemen, the military's Central Command said Tuesday, resuming what U.S. officials said were short-term strikes against the Iran-backed militia's immediate threats against merchant and naval vessels. in the Red Sea and nearby waters.

The US attacks – the ninth in two weeks – came a day after the United States and Britain carried out much larger military salvos against nine locations in Yemen controlled by the Houthis. Those strikes on multiple targets in each location hit radars, drone and missile sites, and underground weapons storage bunkers.

While the Pentagon points to the fact that the Houthis have not launched an attack on ships in the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden since January 18 as evidence that the spot-and-shoot US attacks are depleting the rebels' formidable missiles and destroying drone arsenal, other analysts fear that the Houthis are not really deterred and are merely biding their time.

President Biden has endorsed a sustained, if limited, air campaign, blessing a Pentagon strategy to deploy armed Reaper drones and other surveillance platforms in the skies over Yemen to allow U.S. warplanes and ships to target Houthi mobile targets can hit as soon as they pop up. upwards.

“Are they stopping the Houthis? No,” Mr. Biden said last week about the airstrikes. “Are they going to continue? Yes.”