On Dec. 18, 2009, Houthi fighters in northern Yemen fired several artillery rockets across the border into Saudi Arabia. No casualties were recorded in what may have been the group’s first cross-border projectile attack on the Kingdom. Yet 17 years later, that strike stands as the opening salvo in a campaign of intermittent bombardment that has claimed hundreds of innocent lives. Over that time, the sophistication and lethality of the Houthi missile arsenal have grown exponentially. Events over
