🚨🇺🇸🇾🇪 NYT: Several American F-16s and an F-35 fighter jet were nearly struck by Houthi air defenses

In an explosive report, the New York Times has revealed President Trump ordered the end of the Anti-Houthi campaign as a result of their increasing capacity to inflict causalities on the U.S. as well as the unsustainable expenditure of munitions.

Among the many startling revelations of the article:

▪️General Michael Kurilla, commander of the the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), had been gunning for the Houthis since November 2023. According to NYT, he proposed an eight- to 10-month campaign in which Air Force and Navy warplanes would take out Houthi air defense systems before mountain a targeted assassination campaign. Over 18 months later, it’s safe to say Kurilla was gravely mistaken.

▪️In those first 30 days of the operation, the Houthis shot down seven American MQ-9 drones (around $30 million each), hampering Central Command’s ability to track and strike the militant group. Several American F-16s and an F-35 fighter jet were nearly struck by Houthi air defenses, making real the possibility of American casualties, multiple U.S. officials said.

▪️The cost of the operation was staggering. The Pentagon had deployed two aircraft carriers, additional B-2 bombers and fighter jets, as well as Patriot and THAAD air defenses, to the Middle East, officials acknowledged privately. By the end of the first 30 days of the campaign, the cost had exceeded $1 billion, the officials said.

▪️So many precision munitions were being used, especially advanced long-range ones, that some Pentagon contingency planners were growing increasingly concerned about overall stocks and the implications for any situation in which the United States might have to ward off an attempted invasion of Taiwan by China.

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🇺🇸🇾🇪📝 A New Era

The revelation the Houthis nearly downed an F-35, the newest stealth fighter in the American arsenal, is a major event as notable as the two incidents we previously covered on Houthi ASBMs nearly hitting American aircraft carriers.

The mythology of American military prowess as it currently stands is centered around their air and naval advantages. That a Middle Eastern militant group, armed and supplied by Iran, can not only seriously endanger them but impose massive costs upon the American military to the extent they are forced to concede the battle is nothing less than a revolution in military affairs confirmed. If the Houthis can do this, State actors (Such as China and Russia) definitely can and the costs of air and sea denial assets are much cheaper than the implements of power projection.

This event cannot be understated in terms of historical importance…