🚨🚨Trump: Today, I have ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen... Our brave Warfighters are right now carrying out aerial attacks on the terrorists’ bases, leaders, & missile defenses to protect American shipping...
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A "small ship" would be defensive only, and may not be capable of dealing with some of the missiles used by the houthi. A great way to waste time, money, and effort for no real assurance of safety. Sort of like being willing to hire bodyguards for every time you go downtown, instead of cleaning up the city of brigands.
But what "small ship" are you thinking of? Our smallest warship is the Frigate, but all the Frigates have been decommissioned. The next up is a Destroyer of which we have 73. But at a displacement of ~9,000 tons, they are still pretty big. It's like your best defense against a thorn bush is band-aids, instead of a shovel.
Sometimes, you have to set out hunters to kill the man-eating lion.