Lawfare Archive: War Powers and the Latest U.S. Intervention in Yemen with Brian Finucane, Jack Goldsmith, and Matt Gluck

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

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From January 30, 2024: U.S. military operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen have escalated rapidly in recent weeks, culminating in a number of major strikes aimed at degrading their ability to threaten Red Sea shipping traffic. But the war powers reports the Biden administration has provided to Congress are raising questions about how it is legally justifying this latest military campaign.

To discuss the burgeoning conflict in Yemen and what it might mean for war powers, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Brian Finucane, Senior Adviser at the Crisis Group; Lawfare Co-founder and Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith; and Lawfare Research Fellow Matt Gluck. They talked about their recent pieces on the topic, what we know and don’t know about the administration’s legal theory, and what the law might mean for how the conflict evolves moving forward.

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1:52.3	On March 15th, the United States carried out large-scale airstrikes on Yemen, which officials said was the beginning of a new offensive in the ongoing conflict against the
2:01.4	houthis. The strikes received renewed interest following revelations that top Trump administration
2:07.1	officials used signal to discuss the attack plans for the strike. The U.S. first began airstrikes on
2:13.5	Houthi targets in Yemen in January 2024, shortly after the Houthis began attacking ships in the Red Sea.
2:21.0	For today's archive episode, I selected an episode from January 30th, 2024, in which Scott R. Anderson
2:28.9	sat down with Brian Finukh, Jack Goldsmith, and Matt Gluck to discuss the then-verging conflict in Yemen and what it might mean for war powers.
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