Nasser's Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian PowerNasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "my Vietnam." Jesse Ferris argues that Nasser's attempt to export the Egyptian revolution to Yemen played a decisive role in destabilizing Egypt's relations with the Cold War powers, tarnishing its image in the Arab world, ruining its economy, and driving its rulers to instigate the fatal series of missteps that led to war with Israel in 1967. |
Contents
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The Road to War | 24 |
The SovietEgyptian Intervention in Yemen | 70 |
Food for Peace The Breakdown of USEgyptian Relations 196265 | 102 |
Guns for Cotton The Unraveling of SovietEgyptian Relations 196466 | 142 |
On the Battlefield in Yemenand in Egypt | 174 |
The Fruitless Quest for Peace SaudiEgyptian Negotiations 196466 | 215 |
The SixDay War and the End of the Intervention in Yemen | 262 |
The Twilight of Egyptian Power | 295 |
Bibliographical Note | 313 |
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