Military Analyst: Houthis no match for US

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00:00Sean, how militarily advanced are the Houthis and what real dangers do they pose?

00:07Well, yeah, they've got lots of people and they are very, very committed, but they don't

00:13have any of the conventional military capabilities that we enjoy in the West, you know, satellite

00:18communications, precision strike. Now, Iran has been providing the Houthis with a number

00:23of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, we believe, and some pretty high-tech drones.

00:28But one has to remember that the USS Harry Truman, which is the sort of the big aircraft

00:34carrier, it's the middle of a carrier strike group that is probably providing most of the

00:40weapons effects into Yemen, there's nothing that Iran has that will touch that. That is

00:45bristling not only with offensive capability, but also defensive capability. And the danger

00:50here, of course, is exactly as John Bolton said earlier, what you want to do is cut the

00:55supply lines from Iran, feeding the Houthis, because what you don't want to do is end up

01:00being dragged into a man-on-man war with the Houthis. What you want to do is follow the

01:05trail back to Iran and punish Iran for this. But quite bluntly at the moment, the Houthis

01:12are no match at all for the Americans.