{"id":277962,"date":"2025-07-20T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277962\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:04:11","slug":"the-houthis-shatter-european-pretensions-to-naval-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277962\/","title":{"rendered":"The Houthis shatter European pretensions to naval power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Following America\u2019s ceasefire in May with the Houthis, an Iran-backed militia based in Yemen, the European Union had a chance to step out of America\u2019s military shadow in the Red Sea. The bloc\u2019s naval authority was running Operation Aspides, a \u201cpurely defensive\u201d mission in the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Gulf, to restore maritime shipping through the region. The number of transits had plummeted since attacks by the Houthis started in October 2023, with the total volume falling by 60% (see chart).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following America\u2019s ceasefire in May with the Houthis, an Iran-backed militia based in Yemen, the European Union had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,839,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-277962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114886886227763411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}