Lawfare Archive: Gregory Johnsen Answers "What is a Houthi?"
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🗓️ 13 January 2024
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From September 26, 2015: On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Gregory Johnsen outlines the current state-of-play in Yemen. Johnsen, who is a writer-at-large for Buzzfeed News, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and an all-things-Yemen-expert, walks Ben through the byzantine power politics in Sanaa that led to the conflict now engulfing Yemen and he explains why the war shouldn’t be viewed as just another Sunni-Shia fight. Yet while he clarifies that the issues that sparked the war are much more local, he warns that the longer the conflict goes on, the more likely it is to expand. Johnsen also outlines the events that led to the Saudi intervention and whether or not Yemen—which he says is really twelve separate factions now—can ever be put back together again.
Johnsen is the author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia. Follow him on Twitter for the latest updates on Yemen.
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| 0:47.0 | 2024. |
| 0:49.0 | This week it was reported that the United States and the United Kingdom launched airstrikes on hooty military positions in Yemen, |
| 0:56.7 | following an increase of attacks by the Iranian-backed militia on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. |
| 1:02.1 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from September 26, 2015, |
| 1:07.0 | where Gregory Johnson walks Benjamin Wettis |
| 1:10.0 | through what led the conflict engulfing Yemen, |
| 1:12.8 | why the war shouldn't be viewed |
| 1:14.8 | as just another Sunni-Shia fight, |
| 1:16.9 | and explains who the ho Fair podcast September 26, 2015. |
| 1:32.0 | That was Gregory Johnson with the state of play in Yemen. Johnson is a writer at large for |
| 1:36.4 | BuzzFeed News, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University and in all things Yemen expert. |
| 1:42.0 | On this week's Law Fairfare podcast he walks been through the Byzantine |
| 1:45.4 | power politics in Sena that led to the conflict that has now engulfed Yemen and he explains |
| 1:51.0 | why the war shouldn't be viewed as just another Sunni Shia fight. |
| 1:55.0 | Yet while the issues that sparked the war are much more local, the longer the conflict goes on, |
| 2:00.0 | the more likely they are to expand. |
| 2:02.0 | And Johnson outlines the events that led to the Saudi intervention |
| 2:05.0 | and just whether or not Yemen can be put back together again. |
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