Today’s Wall Street Journal features a a story on Israel’s most recent operation against the Houthis. You may have heard:
One night last week, two intelligence officers picked up signals that ministers in the Houthi government were planning to meet in the rebel-controlled Yemeni capital of San’a the next day, Israeli officials said. Several hours later, Israeli jets were in the air on their way to strike a conference hall where the men were gathering to watch a speech by their leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
The strike killed at least 12 government officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, and severely injured others, according to the Houthis.
According to the story, the strike reflects a revised military doctrine “in which Israel wants its adversaries to know it will hit back hard against any potential threat…The new doctrine is referred to among soldiers as FAFO, an acronym for f— around and find out, according to one of the security officials.”
Let it be.
