Deeper into the quagmire
The Soufan Report comments on a possible change of US policy and ends with:Link:http://www.soufangroup.com/tsg-intel...role-in-yemen/While the civil war in Yemen is highly complex, U.S. involvement since the beginning of the conflict in March 2015 has consistently lacked an overarching objective and a coherent strategy to achieve it. Initial U.S. support to the anti-Houthi coalition under the Obama administration was neither able to shift the military dynamic of the conflict, nor minimize civilian casualties from Saudi airstrikes. Initial U.S. support likewise did nothing to stop the expansion of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Yemen. Given the static dynamics of the conflict, there is no reason to believe that renewed U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition would now achieve any of these goals. Furthermore, while the U.S. has a clear interest in combating international terror groups in Yemen, claiming a stake in the Yemeni civil war risks repeating the same mistakes the U.S. made in Syria and Iraq, where U.S. support was viewed as an attempt to underwrite the agenda of one regional sectarian power at the expense of another.
There is a WaPo report and three comments on this:http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/tru...t-in-yemen-war
For a moment stand back and ponder how the imagery of millions of starving Yemenis will play out globally.
Yes, I know Yemeni civil society is a "jungle" and Yemenis are currently fighting each other and the coalition - a task that comes first for the armed groups.
No guesses who is most likely to gain from an increased US role and who is most likely to feed the Yemeni people.
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