On May 31st local time, Yemeni Houthi armed forces representative Yahya Sarea stated that the United States and the United Kingdom had conducted multiple airstrikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and Hodeidah, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 42 injuries.
Yahya Sarea claimed that the US and UK airstrikes targeted local civilian facilities, violating international law and constituting war crimes.
In response, the Houthi armed forces launched attacks on the US aircraft carrier "Eisenhower", using multiple winged missiles and ballistic missiles, and claimed to have achieved successful hits.
However, US Department of Defense officials stated on May 31st local time that they had not detected any attacks on the "Eisenhower" aircraft carrier and did not provide relevant photographic evidence.
As of the evening of June 1st local time, Yemeni Houthi armed forces spokesperson Yahya Sarea delivered a speech announcing that the Houthi armed forces had recently launched a series of military operations against multiple targets.
One of these operations targeted the US "Eisenhower" aircraft carrier in the northern Red Sea, where the Houthi armed forces launched missile and drone attacks.
This marks the second attack by the Houthi armed forces on a US aircraft carrier within the past 24 hours.
The ongoing attacks by the Houthi armed forces on US aircraft carriers pose a difficult strategic puzzle.
1. The Houthi armed forces may carry out multiple deceptive attacks, but what if a real one occurs?
This is akin to the fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," where even though people may no longer believe, what if the wolf actually comes?
2. The US may deny multiple times, but what if it really happens?
3. The Red Sea is crucial for the US military. It is Israel's lifeline and key defense line.
The US military must maintain a long-term presence in the Red Sea to prevent the Houthi armed forces from launching missiles, drones, or even hypersonic weapons towards Israel, blockading the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, and preventing Arab-Islamic forces from the Red Sea-Yemen direction from conducting large-scale military force deployment or amphibious assaults towards the Israeli front lines.
4. However, the Red Sea also poses a significant threat to the US military.
This narrow body of water is surrounded by Arab countries. Once a large-scale Middle Eastern war erupts, the US military in the Red Sea may become trapped. The Houthi armed forces or even Arab-Islamic forces can attack the US military from multiple directions, using saturation attacks and hypersonic weapons to directly target US aircraft carriers.
5. This poses an unsolvable strategic puzzle, posing a serious threat to US hegemony.
Under the repeated threats of "hitting aircraft carriers," the US military is either forced to withdraw from the Red Sea, exposing Israel's Red Sea lifeline and defense line, shaking US global hegemony; or it persists in staying, facing possible real attacks, the result of which will be exposing Israel's Red Sea lifeline and defense line, shaking US global hegemony.
6. Since the emergence of hypersonic weapons and drone swarms, the US aircraft carrier-centric global hegemony has been challenged, and the situation is even more severe in regions like the Red Sea, especially in nearby waters.
However, there has been no real combat so far.
7. There are only two ways to solve this strategic puzzle:
Either the US invents a completely new disruptive weapon that can quickly destroy the attacking aircraft carrier's electronic warfare systems, information systems, hypersonic weapons, missiles, and drones, or the US forms strategic deterrence against relevant countries and forces in other ways, achieving a form of terror balance that prevents them from attacking US aircraft carriers.
However, in the short to medium term, both of these approaches are not very realistic.
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