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Egyptian military failure in Yemen in 1960s highlights challenges

"Yemen is a lot like Afghanistan and perhaps even worse. And you have to remember that the Egyptians tried to take over Yemen and control it in the 1960s and failed miserably. It was their Vietnam."

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