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Bryden Spurling, senior research leader for defence and security at RAND, said that there "was clearly reluctance [on the part of Washington and London] to strike the Houthis despite the threat they pose to one of the world’s most important waterways."
"Let’s say enemy strike plans are based around them going in and taking out a whole air wing at an airfield within a morning. Well that is not going to happen if they [friendly aircraft] are dispersed around the country and moving from A to B to C to D the whole time," said Gary Waterfall, a former UK Royal Air Force air vice-marshal.