This is popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky

details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to

John Artabury.

He's an analyst with his eyes on Yemen and he's going to be telling us all about the situation

in Yemen and the crossroads that that war is currently at. Both sides are engaged in peace talks at the moment

trying to work a way out of this horrible seemingly forgotten war. There are children

starving to death yet the war is underreported here in the west.

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maybe if you can go back to the start of the war in Yemen and explain how all this happened,

who's involved, that sort of thing.

Sure, absolutely.

So today is actually kind of an auspicious day because it marks one year

since the death of the former dictator Ali Abdullah Sala, who had ruled Yemen essentially for decades. You can trace a lot of this back

essentially to the Arab Spring initial uprisings that occurred in the capital of

Sunna against Salih eventually forced him to essentially step out of power and appoint a gentleman by the name

of Mansour-Hadi into his former position.

What happened in the kind of interceding years

between 2012 and when the war started proper at 2014

is a little too complicated inside baseball

to really break down for a general overview,

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