In this critical analysis by The New Atlas, we uncover how the ongoing US involvement in Yemen is revealing the stark limitations of American military power 🛑. Despite technological superiority and global reach, Washington faces mounting challenges on the ground and in global perception 🌍📉. The conflict also highlights the resilience of local resistance forces, growing regional instability, and a shifting geopolitical balance in the Middle East 🏜️🔄. A must-watch for those seeking the truth behind media narratives and military strategy.
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00:00I have written another article for New Eastern Alec. It is titled,
00:03U.S. War on Yemen Exposes Limits of American Military Might.
00:08And I wrote this a little while ago.
00:11This was before the U.S. claims that it's reached some sort of agreement with Yemen.
00:17It has ended its strikes on Yemen, although it is fully enabling and encouraging Israel
00:24to carry out strikes in America's stead.
00:27So essentially a continuation of the war, again, these false attempts to pose as seeking peace
00:36and when in actuality just trying to find another clever way to continue the war
00:41without suffering any of the negative consequences of doing so.
00:45So as always, I'm going to read the article.
00:48I will add additional information when and if necessary.
00:50I will show you the sources that I cited throughout the article and I will begin.
00:54Yemen, a nation of approximately 40 million people.
00:57Yemen is one of the poorest nations on earth.
01:01It has suffered decades of political instability, including a U.S.-engineered regime change operation
01:06in 2011 that was part of the so-called Arab Spring, all engineered by the United States.
01:11I've gone over that for many years.
01:13Followed by a nearly seven-year-long war with a U.S.-armed and backed Saudi-led Persian Gulf
01:20coalition.
01:21The war included airstrikes and a ground invasion, along with economic sanctions and a naval blockade.
01:28Subsequently, the U.N., and that is according to the official U.N. website, and they talk all
01:35about how this is one of the world's worst humanitarian crises today.
01:40It says,
01:41The U.N. has declared Yemen to be one of the worst humanitarian crises with up to 14% of the population
01:48displaced by conflict.
01:50Since then, U.S. has carried out direct attacks on Yemen.
01:54Both the previous Biden administration and now the current Trump administration have carried out
01:58military campaigns in a bid to subdue Ansar Allah, often referred to as the Houthis.
02:03I will refer to them as Ansar Allah, the military and political organization administering Yemen's
02:10capital and surrounding cities along the nation's west coast.
02:14So it's holding only part of Yemen's territory, and this is the part the U.S. wants either itself
02:23to control or its proxies in the region to control, or at least destroy Ansar Allah so that
02:28Iran is not a powerful military political organization that is part of a network that
02:36works together with Iran against U.S. hegemony over the region.
02:40The most recent military campaign has included strikes on civilian infrastructure, including
02:45a major port, and reportedly a reservoir.
02:48I talk about leaked messages.
02:50We remember the signal chats, President J.D. Vance, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth,
02:57U.S. Vice President, and other senior officials revealed the deliberate targeting and complete
03:26destruction of residential buildings to kill a single suspected enemy individual.
03:31Despite the tremendous power of the U.S. military and the protracted brutality the U.S. has applied
03:37to Yemen, not just in this most recent campaign, but since 2011 onward, Ansar Allah remains a viable
03:44political and military organization.
03:46It continues to target and destroy U.S. drones, conducting surveillance and attacks in Yemeni airspace,
03:51as well as targeting U.S. warships in the Red Sea amid a much wider blockade Ansar Allah has placed on
03:58Israeli-bound vessels and now U.S. oil shipments.
04:02And this is changing rapidly.
04:04So even by the time you see this video, and since I wrote this article, all of this changes.
04:10Ansar Allah will target these various targets or not, depending on what the most recent rhetoric is out of
04:20Washington. In essence, Ansar Allah does not want to wage war with anybody.
04:26This is in self-defense. If the U.S. and its proxies, including Israel, are allowed to run
04:33Russia over the entire region, it's existential to Yemen as well.
04:39If they target and destroy Iran, this will be existential for Yemen, just as it is for Lebanon,
04:45and especially Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
04:48While Ansar Allah is regularly claimed to have targeted and forced U.S. warships to flee,
04:53a recent CNN article appears to confirm that indeed drones and anti-shipping missiles targeting U.S.
04:59ships not only force them to take evasive maneuvers, they have also caused material losses,
05:04including a $60 million F-18 warplane.
05:08That is this article. Here, U.S. Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from
05:15aircraft carrier. The article admits a U.S. official said initial reports from the scene
05:20indicated the Truman, USS Truman, made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire. They're talking about Ansar
05:27Allah, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard. Yemen's Houthi rebels, Ansar Allah,
05:33claimed on Monday to have launched a drone and missile attack on the aircraft carrier,
05:38which is in the Red Sea, as part of the U.S. military's major operation against the Iran-backed
05:42group. Other Western media outlets have admitted to the loss of multiple $30 million drones over
05:49Yemen. An April 29, 2025 article by France 24 reported the U.S. had lost up to seven MQ-9 Reaper drones
05:57over the previous two months. Just two months, they lost seven MQ-9 drones. The drones are used
06:05to identify and guide munitions to targets. It could also carry out strikes. They have a service
06:11ceiling comparable to modern manned warplanes like the U.S. F-35 Lightning. The regular loss of MQ-9
06:18drones over Yemen implies that Ansar Allah possesses air defense systems also capable of reaching altitudes
06:25manned U.S. warplanes operate at. This is why the U.S. has failed so far to establish air superiority
06:31over Yemeni airspace, forcing the U.S. to instead carry out standoff strikes. And then I explain what
06:38a standoff strike is in case some people are not sure. Standoff strikes involve the use of long-range
06:44precision-guided missiles fired far beyond the reach of enemy air defenses. Missiles then travel
06:49into enemy airspace to strike their targets. While the obvious advantage of this strategy is avoiding
06:56enemy air defenses, means the warplanes launching these missiles never come in range of air defense
07:02systems in Yemen, so they can never be shot down. But they're using these expensive long-range
07:07precision-guided missiles, firing them. They have to cross deep into enemy airspace. They themselves risk
07:15being shot down, and then they hit the target. The problem is they don't have an infinite supply of
07:21these missiles, and this is what I talk about. There are many disadvantages, including the use of
07:26standoff munitions, which are expensive and made in relatively small quantities. Enemy radar systems can
07:32detect standoff weapons as they travel across their airspace, allowing them to potentially intercept the
07:37incoming missile. It also provides personnel and equipment time to take cover before the standoff
07:42munitions reach their target. If a nation has an integrated air defense system, when any of the
07:47air defense radar sets detect an incoming target, it notifies the entire network. Alarms go off. People
07:54have time to take cover. Western media outlets have reported that Ansar Allah is believed to have
07:59surface-to-air missiles from Iran. This includes systems like the ARK-1 and 2 air defense systems.
08:04These are comparable to Russian-made Buk air defense systems, which are used by both Russian and
08:12Ukrainian forces in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. They are very capable. They can hit warplanes at their
08:19maximum operating altitude, which I also talk. While these systems are considered medium range, they are
08:27capable of targeting modern warplanes at their maximum surface ceiling. So when they talk about short, medium,
08:32and long range, that's just how far they can go into the distance to hit a target, not how high. Most of these
08:40air defense systems can reach modern warplanes at their maximum operating altitude. Man-portable air
08:49defense systems have a limited ability to hit targets at high altitudes, which is why if that's
08:56all you have, the U.S. can establish air superiority over your country and bomb you at will because
09:01they are operating at altitudes the man-portable air defense systems cannot reach. But if you have
09:06something like a Buk, you can reach it. And this forces the U.S. to carry out standoff strikes,
09:12which are far less effective than just flying over a country and bombing at will. This is the same
09:18problem Russia has in Ukraine. They are incapable of doing this. They have compensated using huge
09:24amounts of long-range precision-guided weapons, drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles,
09:30glide bombs. The U.S. is not capable of making these type of munitions in the quantities Russia is.
09:36Western media outlets have also noted the U.S.'s use of electronic warfare aircraft against targets
09:42across Yemen. We have articles like this talking about electronic warfare warplanes, and I will talk
09:50about the role that they are playing in all of this. Western media outlets have also noted that
09:55the U.S.'s use of electronic warfare aircraft against targets across Yemen armed with anti-radiation
10:00guided missiles designed to detect and home in on-radar signals. When we hear about the harm
10:06missiles U.S. sent to Ukraine, that was meant to target Russian air defense radars. Such missiles
10:14are used as part of suppression of enemy air defenses or SEED missions to either force air defense
10:20operators to turn off their radar sets to prevent their destruction or to target and destroy the radar
10:26or set if they don't. Whether switched off or destroyed, the radar systems are unable to target
10:32and destroy incoming warplanes allowing strikes to be conducted. So you have to do this in a coordinated
10:36manner. If the SEED mission come in and they are suppressing the air defenses, whether they're destroying
10:42them or forcing them to turn off the radars, they're followed by a strike force, a strike aircraft that
10:48will then carry out the bombing. It's extremely risky because you only have a limited number of
10:55these anti-radiation missiles and for whatever reason the radars don't turn off and you're not
11:01able to destroy them, they will be able to shoot down all of these aircraft. This is what happened
11:05all throughout the Vietnam War. This is why the U.S. lost thousands and thousands of aircraft during the
11:11Vietnam War. Despite the simple premise, the detection and suppression of enemy air defense systems
11:17as part of SEED missions is dangerous and complex. The fact that Ansar Allah is still regularly detecting
11:23and downing MQ-9 drones means U.S. SEED missions have fallen short of destroying Ansar Allah's air
11:29defenses and establishing air security already over Yemen. The limitations of U.S. military power have
11:35been steadily exposed in recent conflicts. U.S. proxy war in Syria and now its military operations against
11:42Yemen have required U.S. warplanes to conduct standoff strikes because of an inability to
11:47either destroy or evade Russian and Iranian-designed air defense systems. The transfer of U.S.
11:53weapons to Ukraine and their failure on the battlefield there has further exposed the limits
11:59of U.S. military might. Remember back in Desert Storm or the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq,
12:06Iraq had antiquated, poorly integrated, poorly trained, poorly maintained air defense systems and
12:14the U.S. was able to target, destroy them, wipe them out. And then they were able to conduct airstrikes
12:20at will over all of Iraq. And we remember the same thing happened in Syria after the collapse of
12:25the government last year. Israel was able to wipe out Syria's formidable air defense, integrated air defense
12:32network because everyone abandoned it. It wasn't switched on anymore. So they destroyed it and now they
12:38can fly anywhere they want in Syria and bomb anything they want at will. And so can the U.S.
12:43and anyone else joining this U.S. engineered conflict in the region. So we're talking about
12:51that. We're also talking about the limitations of U.S. military power. But despite this, the U.S.
12:56remains a dangerous threat to the nations it targets. In Syria, the U.S. used asymmetrical military power in
13:03the form of arms militants, economic warfare and political interference to succeed where its air
13:08power had failed. It's very important to understand that it's not just military power U.S. can use to
13:15overthrow a country. Very often they don't use any military power at all. They use political subversion
13:21that many, many nations around the globe still to this day have not defended themselves properly
13:27against. While the disparity between U.S. military might and that of nations it targets
13:32has narrowed significantly over the years. Its vast array of economic and political weapons remain
13:36potent alternatives. Only time will tell whether the emerging multipolar world can close the gap in
13:42regards to these U.S. advantages in the same way it has regarding America's quickly shrinking
13:47military advantage. So there is a narrowing gap between U.S. military superiority and the rest of the
13:53world. In fact, in some ways the gap is opening up again, but in in favor of nations like Russia,
13:59China and even in some ways Iran. The next area the multipolar world needs to focus on are these
14:08asymmetrical tools the U.S. uses when when military power is not enough and political subversion is such
14:15a big factor in all of this. The multipolar world needs to learn how to not just help themselves but
14:22their partners and their allies defend against political interference from the United States. That means
14:27these NED, National Endowment for Democracy funded organizations. They need to be able to protect
14:32against U.S. funded opposition groups. U.S. creates and backs opposition groups meant to eventually take
14:39over a targeted country. They have to protect their information space. They need to protect their
14:46education system, their political system, and their economy. They need to do all of this. It is full
14:52spectrum dominance. It is not just military dominance. It's not just economic dominance. The U.S.
14:58uses full spectrum domination as part of imposing and maintaining hegemony over the globe. Nations need
15:07to learn how to defend themselves in a full spectrum manner. With all of that said, the conflict in
15:15Yemen is going to continue. We see these U.S. operations or it backs other nations attacking Yemen.
15:24There are pauses in the fighting and the confrontation ebbs and flows. The purpose of this conflict,
15:32though, is not necessarily just because the U.S. is interested in Yemen. It's interested in weakening and
15:38isolating Iran itself. So as long as that is an objective of the United States, conflict with Iran's
15:46partners and allies will also remain an objective. So this is far from over. Don't let anyone try to
15:52convince you that President Trump or the Trump administration wants peace in Yemen. No, they have
15:58scarce resources. They are not able to fight all of these wars at the same time. They are picking and
16:02choosing and they're pretending to pursue peace to freeze one conflict so that they can transfer
16:10resources to another. I will continue keeping an eye on all of this. If you thought this video was
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