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YEMEN — THE BATTLEFIELD IS SHIFTED 1. After weeks of Houthi advances around Taiz and the Red Sea coast, the Yemeni government has finally shifted from containment to counter offensive with Operation Dawn of Yemen. 2. Government forces claim to have retaken Dhubab, positions around Bab el-Mandeb and the Dhubab–Mocha route, with Mocha reportedly back in government hands. The full extent still needs independent verification. 3. What changed? The government is no longer simply absorbing Houthi attacks and responding with airstrikes. It is attempting a coordinated air-ground manoeuvre campaign. 4. Tactics Rather than attacking Houthi coastal positions purely frontally, Yemeni Government Forces appear to have used the Kahboub highlands as a platform for a flanking movement toward Dhubab. This might as well be the first operational maneuver executed by the Yemeni Ground Forces. 5. Airpower Saudi airpower is being integrated with Yemeni ground forces to strike frontline positions, logistics, reinforcements and C2 systems before the ground forces exploit the destruction caused by the bombardment. 6. Who is enabling it? 🇾🇪 🇸🇦 🇵🇰 🇹🇷 🇺🇸 The reported development of Saudi-Yemeni and Saudi-Pakistani JTAC teams, OMLTs and the new JFC architecture is proving effective in solving the C2, coordination and targeting problems that previously limited the government’s ability to convert airpower into ground gains. 7. Tiaz - Aden However, Taiz still remains the critical problem. The Houthis have been using the opposite logic here. They attack junctions and GLOCs, restrict reinforcement, threaten retreat routes and are progressively trying to isolate Taiz. Their capture of Al-Turbah threatens the Taiz–Aden connection and could severely complicate government resupply. 8. Battefield Theathers So Yemen now has 2 interconnected battles zones: West: Government forces are trying to dismantle the Houthi coastal salient. Taiz: The Houthis are trying to isolate the government’s main highland position from Aden. 9. Takeaways The most important change is therefore not simply that the government has retaken territory. It is that the government appears to have shifted from defensive attrition to coordinated air-ground manoeuvre. The real test now is whether Government Forces can hold Dhubab/Mocha, reopen Taiz’s supply routes, prevent another Houthi counterstroke and turn air superiority into sustainable territorial control. If they manage to do it, then the September Houthi offensive may have overextended itself. If the government forces fail, then this may simply be another temporary swing in Yemen’s long war.