From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Sat Jul 17 2010 - 16:55:05 EDT
Yemen's Forever War: Challenges for U.S. Policy
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Featuring April Longley Alley, Barak Salmoni, and Christopher Boucek
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Three interlocking security crises complicate the provision of U.S. security
assistance and nonmilitary aid to Yemen: the Houthi rebellion, which has
destabilized Yemen's northern border and prompted Saudi military
intervention; the ongoing struggle against al-Qaeda, which constantly
challenges the counterterrorism capabilities of this ailing state; and a
resurgent secessionist movement in southern Yemen that threatens central
government authority.
To discuss these issues, The Washington Institute invited April Longley
Alley, Barak Salmoni, and Chris Boucek to address a special Policy Forum on
July 13, 2010.
April Longley Alley is a research associate at the National Defense
University's Center for Applied Strategic Learning. She served as a Yemen
subject matter expert for Gen. David Petraeus's U.S. Central Command
Assessment Team and for a USAID Yemen conflict assessment. She has conducted
fifteen months of fieldwork in Yemen and published extensively on her
findings.
Barak Salmoni has served as a political scientist at the RAND National
Defense Research Institute, as deputy director of the USMC Center for
Advanced Operational Cultural Learning, and as an assistant professor at the
Naval Postgraduate School. He is author of the recently released RAND study
Regime and Periphery in Northern Yemen: The Huthi Phenomenon.
Christopher Boucek is an associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program. He
is a leading authority on rehabilitation and disengagement programs for
Islamist militants and extremists as well as a recognized expert on
terrorism, security, and stability issues in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He has
written extensively on the development of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,
drawing on numerous visits to the region.
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