A total horror show: The new plan for Yemen
NOVANEWS
By Dan Glazebrook
Photo: Children collecting water in Sana’a, Yemen, July 2015. Credit: Hind Aleryani/Oxfam
Presenting themselves as shocked bystanders to the growing famine in Yemen, the US and UK are in fact prime movers in a new strategy that will massively escalate it. This article was originally published in Middle East Eye.
The protagonists of the war on Yemen – the US, UK, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – have been beset by problems ever since they launched the operation in March 2015. But these problems seem to have reached breaking point in recent months.
First and foremost, is the total lack of military progress in the war. Originally conceived as a kind of blitzkrieg – or “decisive storm” as the initial bombing campaign was named – that would put a ...