Coalition deploys US Navy’s lethal Swiss Army Knife to send a message to Iran and China

The Mideast crisis is heating up and the U.S. has formed a naval coalition that includes one of the Navy's most-important weapons -- its lethal guided-missile destroyers.

Rebecca Grant is President of IRIS Independent Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Lexington Institute.

It’s a mess out there. The Houthis have been launching drones, missiles and hijackers against Red Sea ships for two months, and a notorious Iranian spy ship is helping them. No wonder major shippers Maersk, MSC, Hapag-Lloyd and other commercial cargo carriers paused their Red Sea traffic.