Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965 (HB @ PB Price) : Ministers, Mercenaries and Mandarins -- Foreign Policy and the Limits of Covert Action

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 Sanaa 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 the covert action was designed to secure: the future stabilityJones, Clive is the author of 'Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965 (HB @ PB Price) : Ministers, Mercenaries and Mandarins -- Foreign Policy and the Limits of Covert Action', published 2004 under ISBN 9781845191986 and ISBN 1845191986.