Recent content by Colin Parkinson

Of course Spain could also play dirty by stoking the Western Sahara conflict: Status: The decades-long territorial dispute between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front remains a low-intensity conflict. Control: Morocco controls roughly 70% of Western Sahara (referred to as its...

What makes you think they won't try to destroy Saudi infrastructure in a slow drip method? I will be blunt, I don't think the "forever war" is sustainable anymore. Iran is struggling, the internal power fights show that clearly, they have far less means to support their allies now than ever...

War by other means. Morocco want the Spaniards out.

I bet the Israelis are laughing their heads off at Spain right now. "Enjoy your just desserts"

In the previous version of the conflict, the Houthi's had a fairly steady supply of food aid coming into Hodeidah, that is mostly gone. Also they got supplied by air from Iran. That is also down to a trickle. I would say grabbing the ports will be key to limiting the Houthi's ability to attack...

Well that would be about 50% of the current holders of nuclear weapons

Further to that, marriages are also down

Struggled as to where to put this, but a good reminder that a healthy defense industry is important.

The idea is to bleed the Houthi dry of technology and force them back into their hill forts. The Houthi don't have significant stockpiles, which is why the Iranians are trying to resupply them by air. Frankly I would have KSA on the behalf of the Yemen government, shoot down any aircraft from...

Attack the Houthi controlled region with drones run by KSA (who likley will hire people to do so) Make their lives miserable, at the same time, offer the various tribes bribes to stop supporting the Houthi's.

Thank god for UN watch, trying their best to hold them to account. I don't think much of the UN, there are some dusty programs out of the limelight that do good but aren't sexy enough to get noticed or exploited. I suspect the biggest benefit is to allow nations that hate each other a way to...

The Houthi survive on aid and having a functioning port and airports, sadly the only way to defeat them is to either take the port away from them and destroy the airports or destroy the airports and port and blockade them.

The sea attacks electronics on a mechanical, electrical, chemical and biological level.

Out here a lot of those small builders got their start on aluminum boat building by working on the fast cats.

I played with a civilian version of that system, using an optical camera to select the target, you could manually enter wind, elevation to compensate, pull the trigger and the gun would fire when the image in the scope lined up with the image in the system and with corrections. That was...