In the morning hours of January 12 local time, the United States and United Kingdom began a series of strikes on Houthi-controlled Yemen. They came in retaliation for ongoing threats to international shipping lanes in the Red Sea. How did the operation play out? And will this be the end of the conflict? Those and others are the topics that we tackle today. 0:00 The United States and United Kingdom Attack Yemen 1:03 Background: The Red Sea Crisis 4:32 Fighting an Asymmetric Conflict 6:01 Are There Diversionary Incentives? 7:18 The United Nations' Role 8:53 Is this the End? 11:03 What's Next? The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. Media licensed under OGL 3.0 (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/): By Simon Walker: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_(cropped).jpg Media licensed under CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/): By Secretary of Defense: https://www.flickr.com/photos/secdef/53412912175 Media licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/): By Parliament.uk: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Keir_Starmer_crop_2.jpg Media licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): By Kremlin.ru: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/52820 http://en.kremlin.ru/catalog/persons/615/events/61802 http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70746 By Khamenei.ir: https://farsi.khamenei.ir/photo-album?id=49438