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“It is too soon to call whether they will ultimately join Iran’s retaliation or not,” said Burcu Ozcelik, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank...That the Houthis have not yet done so likely hints at “the pace and sequencing of Iran’s retaliatory response,” according to Ozcelik at RUSI. Tehran “may judge that the Houthi card is better held in reserve for later.” The pause also speaks to the “internal factionalism” within the movement, Ozcelik added, with hard-liners “spoiling for a fight” while others argue that “tightening control over Yemeni territory should take priority.”

Justin Bronk, the senior research fellow for airpower and technology at the Royal United Services Institute, said: “It was short-sighted in terms of dismissing what Ukraine can contribute in terms of specialist advice. Ukraine is unquestionably one of the leaders in the world in the way that it does air defence command and control.”

I think the US will go through a staged approach. So they will begin by attacking the anti-ship cruise missile sites, the bases where boats are kept, known launch sites for drones and essentially try and write down all the things that could attack ships there. Then they will need to start convoying, so having naval vessels go with the ships that are trying to get through in order to shoot down drones and missiles and other things that are fired at them. And the intent will be to get to a situation where there is a steady flow of shipping through the strait and the Iranians have accumulated enough damage that they’re not able to interdict."