Bab el-Mandeb, the Houthis and Iran's bridge to engulf Africa and strangle the Indian Ocean

This alert is based on confidential source information. For decades, the West viewed the Bab al-Mandab Strait through a merchant's lens, merely a 'vertical' waterway through which barrels of oil and cargo containers pass. However, while the world was counting the ships crossing, the Houthis, with Tehran behind them, were reading the map laterally, in a terrifying 'horizontal' manner. The recent battle and the Houthis' expansion toward Yemen's western coasts were not merely an attempt to close the strait, but a strategic assault aimed at establishing a bridge that would lead them to an entire...