The Long War Journal admits a little-known fact about Saudi Arabia’s starvation war in Yemen. While the U.S. Special Operations Command conducts regular strikes on Al Qaeda in the Arabia Peninsula (AQAP), America’s ally in the Yemen war does not. The Saudi-UAE coalition often avoids targeting AQAP and has cut deals with the group that have...
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Intel Error: How the U.S. Inflates the Terrorist Threat
U.S. intelligence and media reports often make a fundamental mistake about “terrorists” in the Middle East, says Gregory Johnsen, former Fulbright Scholar in Yemen and well-informed author. IOW, he’s not a Washington armchair pundit. This mistake is this, Johnsen says.