The Saudi Led Maritime Alliance and the Operational Viability of the Red Sea  – HORN REVIEW

By Samiya Mohammed, The announcement of a Saudi led multinational maritime defence alliance drawing together fifty nations is a determined effort to shape the security arrangements governing the Red Sea. The founding and supporting members being Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen’s internationally recognized government, Somalia, Djibouti, Sudan, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria form a numerically substantial coalition. However a reading of power distributions, geography and the nature of the actual threats…