News - Yemen: The American news agency Associated Press has described the scale of deterioration within the US Navy during its involvement in the aggression against Yemen as “significant,” confirming that combat with Yemeni Armed Forces has been the primary cause behind a string of catastrophic incidents that inflicted substantial losses on Washington and exposed the fragility of its naval capabilities despite its massive arsenal.

According to a new AP investigation, the Red Sea has, over the past year, turned into the longest and most strenuous naval confrontation waged by the United States since World War II, owing to continuous Yemeni operations that disrupted American warships, exhausted their crews, and revealed their inability to adapt to a high-risk operational environment.

The report states that precise Yemeni missile strikes, paired with specialized naval operations, pushed the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its escort ships into a state of extreme depletion. Investigators documented rising levels of “numbness among crew members” and a loss of purpose among sailors—an indicator of the profound psychological breakdown affecting what is nominally the world’s strongest navy.

One of the most striking incidents cited by the AP involved the cruiser USS Gettysburg, which mistakenly opened fire on two American fighter jets belonging to the Truman strike group after the crew wrongly assumed they were incoming Yemeni missiles, leading to the downing of one of the aircraft.

The investigation stresses that this was not an isolated human error but a direct result of the pressure imposed by Yemeni operations, which robbed US naval crews of the ability to properly distinguish threats and make sound decisions.

The agency notes that investigators documented four preventable incidents, with total losses exceeding $100 million within seconds due to panicked and unstable responses—reflecting the extent of fear and tension inside command rooms aboard US vessels deployed throughout the Red Sea.

AP quoted American military expert Bradley Martin, who stated that the US Navy “asked more of its forces than they could sustain, and discovered the cost later,” an explicit acknowledgment that Washington pushed its naval forces into a confrontation beyond their operational capacity—against a Yemeni military that has proven high combat proficiency and unwavering resolve.

The investigation also reveals that the US Navy’s leadership concealed the names of officials responsible for these failures, announcing only the dismissal of the Truman’s commanding officer, while withholding details about the errors that led to the aircraft’s loss and the other incidents—an apparent attempt to soften the political fallout domestically and internationally.

For nearly a year, the Red Sea has become the most intense naval battleground the United States has faced since World War II. Continuous Yemeni military operations have exposed severe weaknesses in US naval readiness, prompting internal inquiries, leadership removals, and millions of dollars in losses. The new investigation by the Associated Press sheds unprecedented light on how sustained pressure from Yemen’s Armed Forces has overwhelmed US naval crews and disrupted Washington’s military calculations.