This move strengthens their control over a key maritime shipping route.
Yemen's Houthis seize strategic Red Sea port of Mokha
Mokha's capture brings the Iran-backed group closer to controlling a key international shipping route.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels seize strategic Red Sea port in Yemen
The rebel group took over Yemen's port of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said. Mokha is about 50 miles from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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In May 1976 a Satawalese master navigator named Mau Piailug stood on the deck of a double-hulled Polynesian canoe in Honolua Bay, Maui, and prepared to sail to Tahiti. Sans compass, chronometer, and chart. The canoe was Hōkūleʻa, a replica of the voyaging craft that had carried Polynesians across the Pacific a thousand years earlier. Over the next thirty-four days Piailug would navigate her about two thousand three hundred nautical miles south-southeast to Papeete using the rising and setting positions of stars, the shape of ocean swells refracted off islands beyond the horizon, the colour of the water at dusk, and the behaviour of terns returning to land at evening.
Donald Trump drops demands to own Greenland, but the harm has been done
A revised defence pact with Denmark and Greenland is a modest improvement, but annexation threats were a costly blunder
Isolated by Iran and Yemeni Houthi rebels, Saudi Arabia seeks US backing
With Tehran-allied rebels seizing control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean on Thursday, and Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the kingdom is at risk of losing all maritime access for its oil tankers.
Let’s build a fleet and change the world
Abandon Big Ship, get on a Little Ship
Straitsweeper
A tanker is transiting a mined strait. Sweep the route and mark the mines before it arrives.
Why You Should Use Islands Architecture
A peek into the future of frontend development
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Rising Tide Boat Works
Rising Tide Boat Works is creating a hub for marine electrification on Vancouver Island. Accelerating the adoption of marine electrification.
Causal Islands Berlin 2024
Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy
This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the gl…
Vessel struck by projectile while transiting Hormuz strait, UKMTO says
Vessel struck by projectile while transiting Hormuz strait, UKMTO says
Denmark and Greenland say US military agreement will not compromise Arctic territory’s sovereignty
Statement sought to clarify Trump’s announcement that US will have ‘permanent control’ over Greenland’s security
A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)
Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty
