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Sato-Kan Hiroshi is Chief Senior Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) and President, The Japan Society For International Development.
The Sectarian Crisis in Yemen: Damage from a Divisive Storm
The military campaign called Operation Decisive Storm pits Saudi Arabia and most of the GCC states, along with the United States, Britain, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, and several other minor players, against the Houthis in Yemen, which possess only moral support from the real target in this proxy war, Shi‘i Iran. How did such a lopsided war come about? Why has Yemen become the new battleground in a Sunni-Shi‘i fault line emerging as an ideological rival to the Cold War mentality that saw Soviet communism versus Western capitalism? What precisely is this sectarian crisis all about?
