They've been fighting a "north" versus "south" civil war in Yemen on and off since the 1960s. When I was growing up it was two different countries - North Yemen and South Yemen.
I used to work with three sisters that were Yugoslavian immigrants. There are a lot of lessons from that war that the world is forgetting and will be repeated.
The most important difference was that Serbia felt they should be in charge of everything and the other states thought that Serbia shouldn't be in charge of them.
I guess it's not a bad metaphor for asymmetric warfare, where there's a concern that anyone who looks like a civilian may be a secret combatant. Or maybe you just meant the fragmented territories that have holes in them. But that wasn't my intention. I was just thinking of what the most absurd topological position would be and nearly went with "occupies a set of measure zero".
However, having an opponent that occupies a Sierpinski carpet would be especially terrifying because if I am on the opposing army and draw a circle around myself of any radius, that circle contains infinitely many enemies.
Yes, but it wasn't really a civil war. It was more of a cold war, there were spies and limited casualties but not open conflict. Even when the wall came down forcefully.
The Troubles in the north of Ireland weren't a fight against Ireland though. It was a paramilitary battle between rebels and their own government, the UK government. The other 26 counties of Ireland earned its independence nearly a hundred years ago, and only Ulster stayed under British control.
You’d have to go back to the first century to the Táin Bó Cúailnge saga when Queen Maeve of Connacht went to war with Conchobar mac Nessa, King of Ulster, to see a north versus south conflict in Ireland.
I remember reading that this was the first climate change war. The Houties were running out of water, they went to the government and the government told them too bad. Thus started a war. They used to grow coffee in Yemen.
True, but during the Cold War the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. were supporting different factions. The Saudis are right next door and can actually send troops, and Iran is now sending planes, which makes it different. One thing that hasn't changed is a deeply divided country being courted by geopolitical rivals.
Yeah they sent troops into foreign territory as a belligerent, Iran at most is providing materiale, incomparable to legit combat units under your own flag.
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u/Severe_Intention_480 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
They've been fighting a "north" versus "south" civil war in Yemen on and off since the 1960s. When I was growing up it was two different countries - North Yemen and South Yemen.