What is behind America’s decision to withdraw the second-largest aircraft carrier from Yemen?

In a surprising move, the US has announced its decision to withdraw its second aircraft carrier that has been stationed in the Gulf for months in an attempt to bolster American influence off the coast of Yemen. What are the dimensions of this new withdrawal?

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At the end of last August, the U.S. forces moved the aircraft carrier “USS Abraham Lincoln” from its base on the island of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean to replace the aircraft carrier “Eisenhower,” which was withdrawn from the Red Sea months ago after a series of Yemeni attacks, the most dangerous of which was admitted by the U.S. Navy and which occurred a few meters away from it.

While the “Lincoln” was unable to enter the Red Sea due to the escalating Yemeni operations targeting American ships and battleships and continued to move between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the decision to urgently withdraw it, despite expectations of its continued presence in the region for the next 8 months, sparked considerable debate among experts. So, what was the reason for withdrawing the American battleship?

In terms of timing, it appears that the U.S. Department of Defense understood the latest message from the Al-Houthi, which was included in its weekly address on the developments in the region on Thursday evening, as an indication of targeting the aircraft carrier that is likely temporarily stationed near Socotra Island between the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. The Al-Houthi confirmed that the area remained the scene of Yemeni operations last week, in an apparent hint at targeting the American carrier.

However, there are also other dimensions, as the American carrier was not originally able to implement the directions for its stationing in the Red Sea for reasons that are not yet known, whether due to disagreements between the U.S. Navy and the Defense Department as highlighted in American reports or out of fears of it being targeted. Nevertheless, it is certain that it has become a burden on America with its fleet, which preempted the move by leaking information about the depletion of defensive interception missiles and linking it to the impact on American interests in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, not to mention reports of the rising costs of American interception operations in Yemen at a rate of two billion dollars within months.

Whatever the objectives of withdrawing the “Lincoln” from the Gulf may be, the data confirms that America, which has been waging a relentless war since last January and has summoned strategic bombers, is suffering an unprecedented defeat in its contemporary history at the hands of a country it has long believed has become fertile ground for its influence in the region.