The Lawfare Podcast: Gregory Johnsen Answers "What is a Houthi?"
On this week\u2019s Lawfare Podcast, Gregory Johnsen outlines the state-of-play currently in Yemen. Johnsen, who is a writer-at-large for Buzzfeed News, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and an all-things-Yemen-expert,\xa0walks Ben through the byzantine power politics in Sanaa that led to the conflict now engulfing Yemen and he explains why the war shouldn\u2019t be viewed as just another Sunni-Shia fight. Yet while he clarifies\xa0that the issues that sparked the war are much more local, he warns that the longer the conflict goes on, the more likely it is\xa0to expand. Johnsen also outlines the events that led to the Saudi intervention and just whether or not Yemen, which he says is really twelve separate countries now, can ever be put back together again. \xa0
Johnsen\xa0is the author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al Qaeda, and America\u2019s War in Arabia. Follow him on Twitter for the latest updates on Yemen. \xa0
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