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Red Sea Chokepoints: Securing the Bab el-Mandeb in a Multipolar Era

The Bab el-Mandeb Strait remains one of the world's most strategically critical maritime chokepoints, linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. This brief examines how competing naval presences, Houthi interdiction campaigns, and great-power rivalry are reshaping freedom of navigation in the strait.

August 202618 min read

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