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A US operation halfway around the planet where no civilian casualties have taken place.
Defense.
No civilian causalities...because we've been shooting down all the missiles. The Houthis have been firing off rockets, drones, and missiles pretty indiscriminately at passing cargo boats, some of which do have US nationals aboard. If the US and allies hadn't been there, there's a good chance there'd be a half dozen cargo ships at the bottom of the Red Sea, and then there would be civilian causalities.
They also fired directly at US warships preceding this attack.
Damn. I wish they hadn't missed.
They didn't miss. The missiles were intercepted and shot down, in a variety of ways (F-18 air to air missiles for one, I forget the others).