Soviet Goals in the Yemeni Civil War.

Abstract

Soviet involvement in the Yemeni Civil War constituted a landmark in Soviet-Third World relations, and in particular, Soviet-Arab relations. Never before had the Soviet Union provided major quantities of military material and manpower to overtly support a client state's attempt to alter the political structure of a neighbor through force of arms. This Soviet attempt to alter the political structure of a regional subsystem (the Arabian Peninsula) failed in the face of both Arab traditionalism and the constraints of the erupting 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The outcome of the Yemeni Civil War could have provided a number of lessons to the Soviet Union (and to the United States for that matter) in the pursuance of non-regional policy goals in the Middle East. However, these lessons were, in the main, missed by the Soviet Union and remained to be addressed until a later date.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 21, 1986
Accession Number
ADA169714

Entities

People

  • William H. Thornton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Economic Systems
  • Families (Human)
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Materials
  • Middle East
  • Military Personnel
  • New York
  • Political Systems
  • Red Sea
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union