The Battle of "Naham" .. Why did the legitimacy fronts collapsed east of Sanaa?
English - Saturday 25 January 2020 الساعة 08:57 am
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Naham front, east of Sanaa, was engulfed in heavy fighting, by mid-January 2020, following the almost total cessation of confrontations between the forces of legality, on one hand, and the Houthi militia, on the other, and continued for two years.
Hundreds of members of the Houthi militia participated in the burning confrontations in Naham, according to field military sources, who mobilized them from the governorates of Dhamar, Amran, Hajjah and Saada, and from the districts of Hamadan, Bani Matar, Bani Hashish and Al-Hima in Sana'a, and plunged them into a battle that claimed hundreds of them in just one week.
According to these suicide operations, which are based on the Iranian martial doctrine that are not concerned with human losses as much as they are concerned with the goal to be achieved, the Houthi militias fought in the form of human chains / waves, a reproduction of the same tactic that the Iranians used in their war with Iraq during what was known as the "Gulf War" The first "eighties of the last century.
Houthi militias incurred losses, during the past week, on the fronts of Naham of hundreds of its members, field leaders and supervisors, where Sanaa hospitals and the surrounding areas were unable to absorb the dead bodies and the injured and distributed them to hospitals in other governorates.
On the results of the first week of battles, a military source says that the forces of legitimacy are still fighting as if they are (popular resistance) and not forces within a regular army that are supposed to be run from a joint operations room. The battles from Al Bayda to Al Jawf are one front.
However, given the sheer size of the massive human militia losses and the fact that it has not yet been able to secure the relatively isolated areas and locations, the army may benefit from all of this - especially with the unparalleled support from the tribes of the governorates of Marib, Al-Jawf and Al-Bayda, and the districts of Naham and Sarwah - to implement detour operations within the scope of large-scale military operations and harvest Important gains.
In addition, air strikes carried out by Arab coalition fighters in support of the National Army escalated, targeting the Houthis fortifications and their military mechanisms, as well as armed reinforcements coming from Sana'a, which contributes effectively to the successive sweeping of army units attacking the sites.
A field source says to "Newsyemen", the method of managing the battle by the army - so far - does not indicate that it is to liberate Sanaa as much as it is focused on the goal of securing the city of Marib from the Houthi missile attacks.
Military experts affiliated with the legitimate government confirm, in statements reported by the HOCO, that "the city of Marib is still within the range of those Houthi missile attacks," in a preliminary report published by the organization on the incident of targeting the city with a missile attack on Wednesday evening, adding that what is known so far the militias will only be able to deliver Katyusha rockets to the heart of the city of Marib, from Mount Helan, and if the purpose was to secure the city only, operations would focus mainly on Sarwah.
The fiery week in Naham was marked by huge human losses in the ranks of the militia, offset by a popular detour and the unification of the Republican ranks behind the fighters, in the uniform of the army in the fields of Naham, and unmistakable signs that the next week will witness the retreat of the Houthis, but the most important thing in the event that the army is able to recover what it lost last week, will it offer to knock on the gates of Sanaa ?!
