2026年9月13日 美国东部时间下午6:52 / 福克斯新闻
前海军上尉摩根·墨菲表示，这支受伊朗支持的武装人员聚集在一处极易遭受美国海军火力打击的火山岩岛上。
作者：艾玛·巴西，福克斯新闻
前五角大楼官员称，胡塞武装占领佩里姆岛后，自身暴露在美国火力打击范围内。
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受伊朗支持的胡塞反叛武装于9月11日占领了曼德海峡的佩里姆岛，在一处至关重要的全球航运咽喉要道开辟了新战线。一名前五角大楼官员周日警告称，该武装人员已陷入“击杀箱”。
据美联社报道，此次占领该岛之前，胡塞武装在也门西海岸发动了为期一个月的攻势，造成超过1500名士兵死亡，并迫使也门政府承认一场“惨痛”的失败。
“占领佩里姆岛后，他们拿到了我们可以称之为‘红海瓶塞’的战略要地，”前五角大楼新闻秘书、退役海军上尉摩根·墨菲告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“但他们也将自己送入了击杀箱。他们的能力远不及美国，如果总统做出选择，他可以轻易地将他们从那座岩石岛上抹去，”墨菲警告道。
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胡塞武装于9月11日抵达曼德海峡的战略岛屿佩里姆岛，此举旨在加强对这条至关重要的全球航运航线的控制。（路透社）
尽管佩里姆岛位于狭窄的海上航道中央，但墨菲详细说明了胡塞武装如何将自己置于一个极易遭受集中火力打击的区域。
“佩里姆岛将这条航道一分为二，而这里的航道宽度仅为18英里，”墨菲说。
他表示，数百年来，该岛一直是重要的海上制高点，此前曾被法国军队觊觎控制权，并被大英帝国占领了一个多世纪。
佩里姆岛——一座荒凉的火山岛，也被称为马永岛——距离非洲之角约20英里，靠近吉布提的勒莫尼耶军营，这里是美国在非洲大陆最大的军事设施之一。
“我们在该区域拥有强大的火力，而那不过是海峡中央的一块小岩石。它是一座火山岛，没有淡水，根本无法居住，”墨菲警告道。
“那里几乎没有植被。胡塞武装只是将部队集结在那座岛上。用海军的话来说，这就是我们所说的击杀箱。”
该岛的卫星图像显示，一条1.85公里（6070英尺）长的跑道旁有三座军用机库，地区情报报告称这些设施是阿联酋过去建造的。
“岛上有一条6000英尺长的跑道，我认为是阿联酋人修建的，”墨菲说。
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“拥有一条跑道，尤其是长跑道固然不错，但我们不清楚这条跑道的状况如何，也不知道他们该如何利用这条跑道，而且他们肯定不具备美国及其盟国从该跑道投射力量的先进空中能力。”
他补充称，如果指挥官决定对该岛发动打击，美国军方拥有压倒性的武力选择。
“我们可以将那座岩石炸成玻璃，炸成光滑的玻璃表面，然后我们就能大摇大摆地登岛了，”墨菲说。
“这就是为什么胡塞武装对总统表现得有些暧昧，他们清楚，即便加固该岛，也无法在美国海军的攻势下守住它。”
此次事态升级之际，华盛顿、利雅得和胡塞武装之间近日正在展开外交斡旋。
消息人士向福克斯新闻数字频道证实，沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼于9月10日两次致电唐纳德·特朗普总统，敦促他授权美军对胡塞武装据点发动空袭。
特朗普拒绝了直接干预的提议，美国官员指出，本届政府暂无直接参战计划，但将继续提供情报援助。
伊朗和胡塞恐怖代理势力面临来自亲美非洲国家的红海威胁
这张2026年7月12日的手绘图显示了作为关键航运水道和红海门户的曼德海峡。伊朗威胁将利用也门胡塞盟友封锁通往红海的曼德海峡门户。（美国国家航空航天局世界视图/路透社手绘图）
特朗普9月12日在都柏林对记者表示，胡塞武装已表示希望避免与美军直接对抗。
“胡塞武装给我们打了电话，他们不想和我们打仗。他们明确表示，不想和我们开战……他们不希望我们攻击他们，”特朗普说。
不过，墨菲认为，华盛顿的克制不应被误解为无所作为。
“我不能代表总统发言。但本届政府并未表现出不愿使用武力的态度，”墨菲说。
“如果他们继续严重扰乱全球能源供应，总统采取行动将这些人炸得灰飞烟灭，我对此毫不怀疑。”
也门政府、地区和伊朗消息人士告诉路透社，胡塞武装的推进得到了伊朗武器和伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）的战术指导，美国官员估计仍有数百名伊朗革命卫队军官在也门活跃。
墨菲指出，德黑兰的战略似乎旨在通过封锁关键航运航线推高全球燃油价格。
特朗普威胁：若未来胡塞武装发动袭击，将对伊朗实施“重大军事惩罚”
支持也门胡塞组织的抗议者挥舞武器、高呼口号，庆祝沙特阿拉伯于2026年7月20日实施的海上航运禁令，地点在也门萨那。（穆罕默德·哈穆德/盖蒂图片社）
将此次冲突与历史上的海军权力博弈进行对比后，墨菲强调了双方的战略实力悬殊。
“我们身处一个不同的时代。他们的装备远不及世界大国的先进水平。胡塞武装沿用的是19世纪的战术，而非21世纪的 warfare 作战方式，”他说。
“所以，没错，他们拿下了红海航道这个关键的‘瓶塞’，但他们如何利用这一优势还有待观察，”墨菲总结道。
“这也解释了为什么大国必须拥有强大的海军。这就是为什么英国曾拥有强大海军，为什么美国拥有强大海军——因为有太多地区大国试图封锁航运通道，无论是马六甲海峡、霍尔木兹海峡，还是眼下的红海。”
“我认为未来几天和几周内，我们将看到特朗普政府展开协调行动，确保盟友们齐心协力，帮助我们保持这些关键水道的开放、畅通和自由航行，”他说。
艾玛·巴西是福克斯新闻数字频道的突发新闻撰稿人。加入福克斯新闻之前，她曾在《每日电讯报》美国夜班团队工作，涉及外交、政治、新闻、体育和文化等多个版面。
Houthis enter US ‘kill box’ after seizing Red Sea ‘cork,’ former Pentagon official warns
September 13, 2026 6:52pm EDT / Fox News
Former Navy Captain Morgan Murphy says the Iran-backed militants massed on a volcanic rock vulnerable to US Navy firepower
By Emma Bussey, Fox News
Houthis seize Perim Island, exposing themselves to U.S. firepower, former Pentagon official says.
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Iran-backed Houthi rebels captured Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait Sept. 11, opening a new front at a vital global shipping chokepoint as a former Pentagon official warned Sunday the militants had entered a “kill box.”
The island’s capture came after a month-long offensive along Yemen’s western coast that killed more than 1,500 soldiers and forced Yemen’s government to acknowledge a “painful” defeat, according to The Associated Press.
“With Perim, they have gained what we could call the cork in the Red Sea bottle,” Morgan Murphy, a former Pentagon press secretary and retired Navy captain, told Fox News Digital.
“But they’ve put themselves into a kill box. They’re nowhere near the capability of the United States and if the president so chooses, he can wipe them off the face of that rock pretty easily,” Murphy warned.
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The Houthis reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on September 11 in a move to tighten their grip on a vital global shipping route.(Reuters)
Despite Perim sitting in the middle of the narrow maritime passage, Murphy detailed how the Houthis had effectively placed themselves in an area that is vulnerable to concentrated fire.
“Perim cuts that chokepoint right in half, and it’s only 18 miles wide there,” Murphy said.
He said the island has served as a pivotal maritime vantage point for hundreds of years, previously targeted for control by French forces and held by the British Empire for over a century.
Perim — a desolate volcanic island also known as Mayun — also sits roughly 20 miles off the Horn of Africa, placing it in proximity to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, home to one of the largest U.S. military installations on the continent.
“We have incredible firepower in that region, and that’s a little rock in the middle of that strait. It’s a volcanic rock. It doesn’t have any water. It’s uninhabitable,” Murphy warned.
“There’s no vegetation to speak of. And the Houthis have just massed their troops on that rock. So what that is, what we would call that in the Navy, is a kill box.”
Satellite imagery of the island shows a 1.85-kilometer (6,070-foot) runway alongside three military hangars, which regional intelligence reports attribute to past construction by the United Arab Emirates.
“There’s a 6,000-foot airstrip on that island. I think that Emiratis built it,” Murphy said.
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“It’s nice to have an airstrip, and especially a long runway, but we don’t know the condition of that runway. We don’t know how they could possibly use that runway, and they certainly don’t have the sophisticated air power that the United States and its allies have to project power from that runway.”
He added that the U.S. military holds overwhelming force options if commanders elect to target the island.
“We could wipe that rock into glass, just blast it into a smooth glass surface, put skates back on our feet, and skate all over it,” Murphy said.
“That’s why the Houthis have kind of played coy with the president, and they know that even if they fortify that rock they’re not going to be able to hold it in the face of the United States Navy.”
The developments come amid diplomatic maneuvering between Washington, Riyadh and the Houthis in recent days.
Sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had called President Donald Trump twice Sept. 10 to urge him to authorize U.S. military strikes against Houthi positions.
Trump declined direct intervention, with U.S. officials noting the administration has no immediate plans for direct combat involvement but will continue offering intelligence assistance.
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Satellite imagery shows Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key shipping waterway and the gateway to the Red Sea, as Iran threatens using Yemen’s Houthi allies to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, in this handout picture dated July 12, 2026.(Nasa Worldview/Handout via Reuters)
Speaking to reporters in Dublin on Sept. 12, Trump also indicated the Houthis had signaled a desire to avoid direct confrontation with American forces.
“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us. They let us know, they don’t want to fight with us… they don’t want us to go after them,” Trump said.
Murphy suggested, however, that Washington’s restraint should not be mistaken for inaction.
“I can’t speak for the president. But this administration has not shown a lack of resolve to use force,” Murphy said.
“I wouldn’t doubt at all if the president took steps to pound some of these folks into the sand if they continue to really disrupt the global energy supply.”
Yemeni government, regional and Iranian sources told Reuters the Houthi advance was sustained by Iranian weaponry and tactical direction from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, with U.S. officials estimating hundreds of IRGC officers remain active in Yemen.
Murphy noted that Tehran’s strategy appears designed to drive up global fuel prices by choking critical shipping lanes.
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Protesters who support Yemen’s Houthi group brandish weapons and shout slogans as they celebrate the ban imposed against the maritime shipping of Saudi Arabia on July 20, 2026, in Sana’a, Yemen.(Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)
Comparing the conflict to historical naval power struggles, Murphy emphasized the strategic mismatch.
“We’re in a different era. They are nowhere near the sophistication of the world’s major powers. The Houthis are using a 19th-century playbook. They are not using 21st-century warfare,” he said.
“So, yes, they’ve caught a critical cork in the Red Sea bottle, but how they use it remains to be seen,” Murphy concluded.
“This is an example of why great powers really have to have a strong Navy. This is why Great Britain had a strong navy. This is why the United States has a strong navy, because there’s so many regional powers who want to try to bottle up shipping, whether it is in the Strait of Malacca, whether it is in the Strait of Hormuz, and here, in this case, in the Red Sea.”
“I think what we’re going to see in the next several days and weeks is a coordinated effort by the Trump administration to make sure our allies are on board in helping us keep these critical waterways open, free, and clear for freedom of navigation,” he said.
Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.
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