Abstract The United States (US) military presence in East Africa is well positioned to help defend the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but its basing arrangements and host-country restrictions were designed primarily for counterterrorism rather than a maritime confrontation with Yemen’s Iran-backed political-military movement Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis. As the war with Iran exposes the vulnerability of Red Sea … Continue reading The Red Sea Fight Needs an African Shore