Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Bombing of Yemen and the Houthi Response

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Gregory Johnsen, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, D.C. Johnsen explains the rationale of the Trump administration's decision to bomb Yemen but argues that it will have little effect on the Houthis. Indeed, Johnsen contends that the Houthis are spoiling for a fight with the United States and Israel, believing that this will generate support within Yemen that will help them increase their power.

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1:39.8	Saudi and the Emirati Air Force and is able probably to inflict more damage.
1:49.7	The Houthis have been down this road before, and they've managed to survive and even thrive despite massive airstrikes.
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1:54.3	I'm Daniel Biman, the foreign policy editor of Lawfare, and I'm here with Gregory Johnson,
1:59.0	who is a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf
2:02.1	State Institute in Washington, D.C., and one of the country's leading experts on Yemen.
2:08.1	The U.S. is wary about yet one more open-ended conflict in the Middle East, but if the U.S.
2:14.4	is clear-minded about its goal that the Uthis have to stop this, then that requires a decisive military defeat of this organization, which is going to be very, very difficult.
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