u.s., and it was conducted from a u.s. navy ship. the biden administration is saying that these are defensive strikes, after houthi militants for months now have launched at least 27 strikes on international ships sailing through the red sea, which is a crucial shipping route, through which the u.s. is 15% of global sea trade travels, including oil. the houthis say that the strikes are in protest against israel's military campaign and gaza that has killed more than 20,000 civilians, according to palestinian authorities. joining us now is nbc news correspondent and covering national security and the military. courtney, do you have any intel about why the radar facility was targeted here? >> yeah, so the radars can be used for a number of things, particularly, they can be used to target a ship out in the red sea which is one of the major ways that we have seen the houthis really there and