WorldAnalysis: Saudi Arabia is preparing a massive land, sea and air response

Nawaf Obaid, a senior research fellow at King’s College London, says Houthi missile and drone attacks on Saudi cities, including one intercepted near Riyadh, have little strategic value but produce powerful images. He warns that a major coordinated Saudi-led response using land, sea and air power is taking shape, with a Red Sea maritime coalition holding its final preparatory meeting in Jeddah and Turkey and, more limitedly, Egypt involved.