 determined to protect a waterway critical to global commerce. Months into the clash, however, Yemen's Houthis are showing no signs of going away in the Red Sea. It's a story by Mike Glenn, Pentagon reporter at The Washington Times. Mike, take us through it. Well, if you are a commercial ship and you want to go through the Suez Canal one way or the other, either from the Mediterranean in or toward the Mediterranean, you're going to end up passing along the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.