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US Navy faces ‘most sustained combat’ since WWII against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis
The US Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world’s waterways. But instead of a global power, the Navy finds itself locked in combat with a shadowy, Iran-backed rebel group based in Yemen.
Read more: The Times of Israel