Won't last Israel will attack them the houtis will then retaliate against Israel ships. US will get pulled in again.
Needs somewhere you can source lots of local people who don't want to do this type of work so you need to import immigrants to do it
Suppose it comes down to do you want to lose personal or damage the ship through hostile fire or can you lose a plane
It's basically the back story to the polity books, except the AI just took over and the humans went um ok
When you know you know