President Donald Trump’s ordered strike on Yemeni Houthi fighter targets has changed the illusion that they are a peer group of the United States Navy, retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“Taking the Houthis out of the game of shutting down the Suez Canal has finally occurred,” Holt told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “And the president yesterday used a very interesting word, one that we love in the military as those attacks got started, and that’s the word ‘decisive.’

He added that military planning was achieved, shown by how “the very first things to get hit were radars and aerial defense systems, which in the Air Force, that’s our method of warfare. We’re going to blind you first, and then we’re going to do nasty things to your infrastructure, your logistics, your leadership.”

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