Yemen: An Escapable Disaster - Why the United States Should Avoid Military Intervention
by Andrew Byers and Faith Stewart
Journal Article | January 22, 2018 - 11:23pm
Yemen currently faces a multi-dimensional crisis that represents both a national catastrophe embroiling Yemen’s neighbors and a microcosm of the problems existing throughout the greater Middle East. Yemen’s central government has collapsed entirely, resulting in a failed state that has yielded large swathes of territory to non-state actors. A humanitarian crisis has emerged out of the country’s civil war, with a famine affecting millions, a cholera epidemic, and approximately 14,000 civilian deaths. Other powers in the region have intervened, with Saudi Arabia and some of the smaller Gulf states supporting one faction and Iran another. However, rather than bringing about an end to the current crisis, these interventions have only fueled the civil war with endless streams of arms and military operations. Other factions, including a branch of the Islamic State (ISIS) and an Al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), have also established strongholds in Yemen through which they control territory and conduct attacks.
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