Operation Prosperity Guardian

December 21, 2023

The US has announced the creation of an enhanced naval protection force operating in the southern Red Sea in an attempt to ward off mounting attacks from Yemen’s rebel Houthis on merchant shipping.
- Red Sea, one of the most significant shipping routes in the world, is seeing tensions rise as a spillover of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
Other participants in the effort included Britain, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain.
The new effort would be called Operation Prosperity Guardian.