The Punitive Expedition Against the Houthis

Houthi supporters burn Israeli and US flags in Sanaa, Yemen, June 20, 2025. Photo credit: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah.

In 55 BCE, Julius Caesar decided (according to his Commentaries) to “cross the Rhine since he saw the Germans were so easily urged to go into Gaul, he desired they should have fears for their own territories when they discovered that the army of the Roman people both could and dared pass the Rhine.”  This […]