The Houthi campaign has led to significant delays and cost increases in ... priority for U.S. military planning and operations. This concern extends to Trump’s thus far positive Iran policy ...

So this is a rare chance to commend the Trump administration for its decision to launch (on the Ides of March, no less) significant military operations against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels.

Nevertheless, the Trump administration was right to take an offramp from what was quickly becoming an open-ended campaign with rising costs ... Houthi attacks on shipping did not warrant costly ...

In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump wrote that he had “ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi ... have cost the US and ...

President Donald Trump ordered the United States military to launch decisive and powerful action against the Houthi terrorists ... These relentless assaults have cost the US and the world economy ...

Trump proved this concept himself when he ordered the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani. What followed was a drop in Iranian proxy activity and what then CENTCOM commander Kenneth McKenzie Jr. referred to as “reestablished … deterrence.”