I’d assume we’ve lost more ships to Al Qaeda (see USS Cole) than anything the Houthis could do.
Still, this is an escalation. Last week, we were pretending that the missiles flying at our ships “might have not been aimed at us”. This week, we’re officially saying that the Houthis are shooting at us. That’s an escalation for sure. But we shouldn’t have been pretending that the 25+ missiles launched at us last week were… like… what? I don’t even know what we were trying to argue.