The United Nations estimates 377,000 deaths in seven years, the vast majority from malnutrition and related causes. According to the World Food Program, at least half of Yemeni children under the age of five - 2.3 million people - are at acute risk of malnutrition. Yemen imports most of its food and medicine. The partial Saudi blockade of Yemen has led to a massive humanitarian catastrophe. There are many internally displaced persons, however, who have lost their homes - more than 3.6 million as of December 2020. Unlike Ukrainians, more than 3.6 million of whom have fled the country to neighbors like Poland and Moldova in the past month, few average Yemenis can flee the war to refuge outside the country. They seemed to assume the rebels would be defeated with air power, a badly flawed strategy. As Brennan notes in his memoirs, he wondered what MBS “was smoking.” The Saudi ground forces never even got close to Sana’a. MBS) told then-Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan that the Houthis would be toppled in a matter of a few weeks. In 2015, its architect, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (a.k.a. Like the Russians, the Saudis greatly underestimated their opponents. The Saudi mission was initially code-named Operation Decisive Storm it is anything but decisive. The Saudi intervention in Yemen has many similarities to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
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