Estimating the financial costs of the Yemeni conflict


Issue 1025 - 03 Nov 2016 | 5 minute read

There has been considerable speculation about the financial cost of the Yemen war on its regional belligerents. Early in the campaign observers believed that, despite Saudi government revenues collapsing because of falling oil prices, cost should be no barrier for a country with a 2015 defence and security budget in excess of $80bn. This assessment may have been based on the expectation that an intervention would last around six months or less; original plans were that any Saudi intervention would be similar in length to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

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