In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the latest Houthi attack against MV Tutor using an Unmanned Surface Vessel and killing a merchant mariner onboard (the fourth mariner killed since the start of the attacks in November 2023). Should the world navies adopt a new strategy and utilize convoys to run ships through the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb, and the Gulf of Aden?
It's one of those things where he's a shipping industry guy more than he is a politics one. Ideologically he's always struck me as a radlib of some sort, but it's a channel that normally covers logistics and economics run by a historian. The only way to frame the conflict if he isn't getting into the politics of it is through the lenses he analyses a ship hitting a bridge. At least he's been consistently pessimistic about the US winning since the start.