I'm not even clear that we are fighting the Houthis, as much as we are giving weapons to the Saudis to fight them.

The sea-borne operation was mostly to just give us a reason to shoot shit.

The true solution to piracy has always been counter-piracy or armed merchant ships. Everyone has always known that, but the 19th century Empires thought that privateers could be ended if each of the Empires worked together to end it among all of the monopolized trade that they had. And that worked, for a time.

But the Empires are gone and trade is quite open nowadays. Piracy will return. In fact, I'd expect it to be a much bigger problem going forward in this century.

The Constitution is very clear on how to deal with pirates since American cities were founded in the Age of Sail, and Charelston, SC was a major port during the time.

Allow Americans to have their own warships and engage against pirates by providing them with Letters of Marque.