Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965

Ministers, Mercenaries and Mandarins — Foreign Policy and the Limits of Covert Action

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ID19930302
AuthorsClive Jones (0000-0002-6319-2068, corresponding author)
Year2004
Publication date2004-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBritain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/jj.4116446
OpenAlexW4380767195
ISBN9781837641505
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Between 1962 and 1965 Britain engaged in covert operations in support of Royalist forces fighting the Egyptian backed Republican regime that had seized power in the Yemeni capital Sana’a in September 1962. Covert action was regarded as a legitimate tool of foreign policy as Britain attempted to secure the future of the newly formed South Arabian Federation against the animus of Nasser. The use of covert action, as well as the quasi approval given to the use of mercenaries to support the Royalist cause, was the inevitable result of policy differences within Whitehall (most notably between the ‘mandarins’ of the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office) as well as international constraints imposed upon the UK in the aftermath of the Suez crisis. The book examines the extent to which British policy, while successful in imposing a war of attrition upon Nasser in the Yemen, contributed to the political demise of the very objective covert action was designed to secure: the future stability of the Federation of South Arabia

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