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[–] [S] 95 points 2 days ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago) (10 children)

not just multiple! allegedly - they say Iran destroyed 8 F-15 planes and 1 A-10 in a single strike on the ground.

And Houthis just did a literal blietzkrieg TODAY - and took several islands, huge territory and an important port - and no news outlets covering this.

This is complete failure of US intelligence and US navy, This is total failure of republican led military. how can you control the seas and let thta happen?

and guess what - red sea - closed. our fleet will have to sail back around Africa now - no I kid you not (or beg Houthis to let them pass - houthis might let em but damn this is bad)

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  • [–] 28 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    they say Iran destroyed 8 F-15 planes

    At $88M+ each. Also doesn't help that we've curbed our capacity to produce this kind of aircraft over the last decade. Every lost F-15 will take years to replace, if we can replace them at all.

    This is complete failure of US intelligence and US navy, This is total failure of republican led military.

    Idk, man. It's very easy to say this was an intelligence failure. But what if we had these bases with the implicit consent (or, at least, apathy) of those around them? What if there wasn't any practical defense against an armed uprising of this scale and sophistication?

    I do think westerners have this sense of invincibility, such that the only explanation for a defeat is that they misplayed a winning hand. But we fell into that trap in Korea and then in Vietnam and then again in Afghanistan and Iraq. We spend decade after decade fighting these enormous populations of anti-colonial insurgents and losing time after time.

    Maybe this isn't some kind of tactical failure. Maybe we just shouldn't have picked another losing fight against a bunch of home grown freedom fighters Islamic Extremists when they'd just finished kicking our asses five years ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Who is Houthis and who did they take the islands from? And are they populated islands?

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago

    Who is Houthis

    Depending on who you ask, the rulers of Yemen, or insurgents. Houthi itself is the name of a family that most of their leadership is from.

    who did they take islands from?

    Yemen

    are they populated islands?

    A few people live on some of the islands and there's a military base on Mayyun, which is the latest one captured, but the other ones mentioned are from a few days ago. Mayyun is pretty significant strategically due to its location:

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