Lawfare Archive: The War in Yemen (and Congress’s Response)
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🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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From December 11, 2018: Last week, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Gregory Johnsen, a former member of the U.N. Security Council Panel of Experts on Yemen and the author of the book "The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia," to do a deep dive on the conflict in Yemen: its origins; its current state; and the role Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States have played and are likely to play moving forward. Joining Ben and Greg was Daniel Byman, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy and Lawfare’s own Foreign Policy Editor.
After Ben and Dan’s conversation with Greg, Brookings Fellow Molly Reynolds and Lawfare's Scott R. Anderson sat down for a conversation about Yemen-related legislation that is currently churning on Capitol Hill, and what it may mean for the future of U.S. involvement in the conflict there.
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| 1:17.6 | archive for January 6th, 2024. Since November the Yemen-based Huthie militia has launched 25 attacks against vessels in the Red Sea. |
| 1:26.0 | The United Nations Security Council has condemned the attacks. |
| 1:30.0 | And in a joint statement released this week, the U.S. and 13 other countries warned the |
| 1:33.8 | hoothes that they will, quote, bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue, |
| 1:38.6 | end quote. |
| 1:39.6 | Meanwhile, U.S. officials are becoming increasingly worried that the attacks in any potential retaliation |
| 1:44.8 | may jeopardize months of talks between the Saudis and Houthis on ending Yemen's civil war. |
| 1:49.6 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from December 11th, 2018, in which Benjamin |
| 1:55.3 | Wittis sat down with Dan Byman and Gregory Johnson to discuss the conflict in Yemen, its origins, |
| 2:00.9 | its current state, and the role Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States have played and are likely to play moving forward. |
| 2:06.8 | After the conversation, Molly Reynolds and Scott R Anderson sat down to discuss Yemenrelated legislation currently turning on Capitol Hill |
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