The world knows that the Red Sea and hence its littoral countries on both banks, thereof, are important and form part of the critical elements for a safe maritime space with respect to international trade and its chain supplies. The countries of Arabia, except for Yemen, on the eastern bank of this body of water are financially and economically developed enough, at present, to build strong naval forces to protect their waters.

The Yemen chaos which is not much different from the African side of the Red Sea waters appears to have been created and its ability to protect its waters has been weakened by the Gulf States who launched a war against the country, destroying most of the governing infrastructures that were built over decades and centuries earlier. And the world know this too. The Gaza war has not helped either and pitches the country against all the Western countries or so it seems.

Somalia and Sudan on the African side of these waters together form the longest coast but have also been subjected to chaos and destruction over decades to ensure that they have no say on matters related to the Red Sea maritime route. Both countries suffer from weak governance, or no governance and their populations are continuously subjected to enormous pressures, where they are barely able to survive, in the place of protecting their waters from forces, unknown and unclear to this day.

Yet the world knows that the Red Sea is a significant maritime waterway, which serves not only global trade but is also a passageway for major tourist yachts, war ships and even under the sea vessels, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal and Bab El Mandab Straits. It is a major waterway for transporting fuel and energy supplies and commercial goods between Asia and Europe.

The world also knows that the region is close to the seemingly eternally conflicted zone of West Asia, which also make it a focal point for security apparatuses across........

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