“We think of war as a last resort. They think of it as a way of life,” Yemen expert Elisabeth Kendall tells Peter Bergen of the Houthis, a Yemeni militant group. Kendall weighs in on who the Houthis are and what motivates them, after the group became the target of US and UK missile and air strikes last week following the Houthis’ attack on commercial shipping in the Red Sea in nominal support of Hamas.
“We think of war as a last resort. They think of it as a way of life,” Yemen expert Elisabeth Kendall tells Peter Bergen of the Houthis, a Yemeni militant group. Kendall weighs in on who the Houthis are and what motivates them, after the group became the target of US and UK missile and air strikes last week following the Houthis’ attack on commercial shipping in the Red Sea in nominal support of Hamas.
The Houthis, formally known as the Ansar Allah ("Supporters of God"), have now attracted widespread global attention because of their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea regions as part of their campaign to put pressure on Israel to cease
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