Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution where he specializes in the Middle East and South Asia. His previous books include Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States Since FDR, Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began, and Jordan and America: An Enduring Friendship. He resides in Chestertown, Maryland.

America and the Yemens: A Tragic Encounter is a masterful account by one of America's foremost intelligence and national security analysts of a country cursed in its geography and history. Bruce Riedel weaves this narrative from his vast experience in the White House, CIA and Pentagon under four Presidents as they tried to navigate the perilous territory of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf - both during the rise of al-Qaeda, and after indigenous rivalries were further radicalized by the American invasion of Iraq. Riedel is an omnipresent narrator with unique first-person knowledge of the roots of Yemen's tragic civil war. This book is must reading for anyone fascinated by the causes of a tragedy and American relations that are now catastrophic.

• IntroductionChapter One: BeginningsChapter Two: Ali Abdallah Saleh and Dancing SnakesChapter Three: YAFPAK Yemen and the War on TerrorismChapter Four: Obama and the War’s OriginsChapter Five: Trump and a Humanitarian DisasterChapter Six: Biden and the Future

Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution where he specializes in the Middle East and South Asia. His previous books include Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States Since FDR, Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began, and Jordan and America: An Enduring Friendship. He resides in Chestertown, Maryland.

America and the Yemens: A Tragic Encounter is a masterful account by one of America's foremost intelligence and national security analysts of a country cursed in its geography and history. Bruce Riedel weaves this narrative from his vast experience in the White House, CIA and Pentagon under four Presidents as they tried to navigate the perilous territory of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf - both during the rise of al-Qaeda, and after indigenous rivalries were further radicalized by the American invasion of Iraq. Riedel is an omnipresent narrator with unique first-person knowledge of the roots of Yemen's tragic civil war. This book is must reading for anyone fascinated by the causes of a tragedy and American relations that are now catastrophic.

• IntroductionChapter One: BeginningsChapter Two: Ali Abdallah Saleh and Dancing SnakesChapter Three: YAFPAK Yemen and the War on TerrorismChapter Four: Obama and the War’s OriginsChapter Five: Trump and a Humanitarian DisasterChapter Six: Biden and the Future