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After US/UK attack on Yemen mainland (12 January 2024) Operation Prosperity Guardian is a United States -led military operation by a multinational coalition formed in December 2023 to respond to Houthi-led attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. [ 11 ] Following the breakout of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war in October 2023, the Houthi movement in ...
Since 12 January 2024, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, [16] have launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes, codenamed Operation Poseidon Archer, against the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. [17]
t. e. The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the world's most powerful navy and the largest by tonnage, at 4.5 million tons in 2021 [ 9 ] and in 2009 an estimated battle fleet tonnage that exceeded the next 13 navies ...
The US Navy is preparing for possible war by 2027, with China in focus, Adm. Lisa Franchetti said. She outlined a seven-goal plan for the US Navy, including having 80% of its forces ready to fight ...
Rolling Thunder (1967–68) — Bombing of North Vietnam. Sealords (1968) — Mekong Delta and inland waterways campaign by the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. Starlite (1965) — United States Marine Corps actions near Chu Lai. Sunrise (1962) — Relocation of Vietnamese peasantry around Saigon to "strategic hamlets."
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
On 29 November 2023 US officials said the US Navy destroyer USS Carney shot down a Houthi KAS-04 drone as the destroyer approached the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. [97] On 30 November 2023, Saudi media reported that an Israeli airstrike caused an explosion at a Houthi arms depot in Sana'a , the capital of Yemen.
On 2 February 2024, the United States Air Force launched a series of airstrikes targeting Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed militia groups located in Iraq and Syria. The attack was launched in retaliation against a drone strike carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting US troops in Jordan the week before ...