Reddit reviews Yemen on the Brink

https://www.amazon.com/Yemen-Brink-Christopher-Boucek/dp/0870032534

towards the posts below, Yemen has been spiraling downwards for the better part of a decade. I remember around the time I read this book (2011) another article referred to it as the Alabama of the Middle East, run by religous conservatives hellbent on power at the expense of its poorest minorities... That it has been the focus of SA aggression is not surprising being that is what those groups intended. Has manifested a "failed state". The only thing is it is SA vs. weak, "rebel" fundamentalist actors who the US doesn't feel worthy to back. We propped up Afghanistan for years as long as they were against the Soviets, no such luck here.