The treats must flow

It would be extremely funny if the houthis sink a warship.

it would be even funnier if US ships sank each other in the red sea out of paranoia about ansarollah ("houthis") like that cop who got scared of an acorn and shot his own vehicle.
- houthis hijack an aicraft carrier so the navy decides to scuttle it
- an unfortunate steering accident.
it seems increasingly possible, the article last week celebrating the hard working navy boys doing 24/7 launch and recovery operations on the air craft carrier didn't really broach the subject of why they suddenly started having to have a 24/7 defense screen of fighter jets in the air. Seems like they either don't trust their missile defenses or they're running low on their missile defense munitions.
- They admitted to shooting down a missile with CIWS, which is basically saying "it got close enough to shoot with a giant machine gun," and even that can spray the ship with shrapnel. They're definitely keen not to have that happen again.
  I do wonder how much jet fuel a carrier can actually hold, like how long can they do 24/7 flights for? Do they have tankers for jet fuel as well?
Wonder if the US Navy ships have to do the same thing as SEALS when one of them goes down?

Please explain the need of a biggest naval operation in 80 years against opponents who don't have navy.

Skill diff
I looked up the range of one of the british destroyers in the area and it had a 25km by 25km range.
The sea is fucking BIG. They have fuck all anti air coverage and gaps are easy to find.
- So basically they're using the ships to do the closest thing to an orbital bombardment as possible?
2 babysitters... no babies

I'm old enough to remember when Iraq was supposed to have the 5th largest military in the world, and Operation Desert Shield was the most comprehensive conflict our nation had embarked upon since Vietnam.

Now we've scrubbed Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam from the brain logs. A militia of Radio Shack nerds living in one of the poorest countries on earth now present the biggest threat to US Naval Operations since the Empire of the Rising Sun waged war against the entire Pacific Rim.

Really makes you think...

the entire pretense of US military strategy is to maintain so many layers of unrivaled superiority over the enemy, that the pea at the bottom of the princess's stack of mattresses must be presented as the biggest threat to the princess's vertebrae of all time
- I remember being told a version of that story where the princess ended up alone, because no one would want to be with a person who complained about a pea beneath 20 mattresses

He said the Navy had committed about 7,000 sailors to the red sea

I hope they all die

I'd say more food for the fishes, but they're American so they're gonna be full of microplastics and weird hormones
- They're turning the frigging fish gay!
As a vet of the occupation of Iraq, I somewhat share your sentiment. I feel that if I'd been killed over there it would have been justified and morally correct.
However, I don't really hope for their deaths. What I hope for is that they have a radicalizing experience like I did.
When I speak critically in public about the empire, chuds and libs listen pretty intently. I think it would do a hell of a lot of good if there were more of us speaking up about the evils of the American empire with first hand knowledge. I wish it didn't happen this way because I participated in a great evil, but people love to hear a story of change and reform. Sometimes it takes a story of drama and peril for average people to start thinking critically.
- What I hope for is that they have a radicalizing experience like I did.
  What was your "Are we the baddies?" moment, if you don't mind me asking?
- the only problem with hoping they get radicalised is how much damage they can do in the meantime. I truly hope as many as possible die quickly. they made their choice to serve the death machine

"Biggest battle since WWII" lol US Navy vs Rebels with no formal navy

Houthis are the hero of heros bravely resisting the empire and fighting in solidarity of the Palestinian people.

I said to my other Navy co worker when he mentioned something of a 'new weapon' being used against US ships crying about Houthis but being a Libertarian

he was more concerned about the treat flow "commerce".

It's their land and sea and they demaned we stop arming a genocide. They have every right to blockade that area on humanitarian grounds same as we attack others because of our sanctions or whatever. All the Houthis want is for us to stop supplying weapons to prolong this genocide. It isn't worth putting our people at risk.

Largest naval battle since WWII:

Two of the biggest blue water navies in the world and their allies versus guys with speed boats and rockets

Its the largest naval battle they've undertaken because everyrhing else has just been shooting missles at land based targets.
And by targets I mean hospitals.