
Unpacking the 76th NATO Summit
With force modernization as a topline issue, it was clear that the changing security landscape is reshaping the NATO members’ vision of the nuclear alliance.
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Yemen is a member in good standing of major nonproliferation agreements. With the outbreak of civil war in 2014, ballistic missiles and other weapons flowed into Yemen, and the Yemeni Houthis used the country’s territory to launch missile attacks against foreign belligerents in the conflict, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE. As a result of the ongoing conflict, Yemen is in an intense humanitarian crisis, leaving millions without access to basic social and health services, as well as necessary food, safe drinking water, and medicine.
Since the Israel-Hamas war broke out in late 2023, the Yemeni Houthis have launched missiles and drones at Israel and against commercial and naval ships in the Red Sea, prompting retaliation efforts by Israel. Additionally in response to these strikes, from March 2025 to May 2025 American and later also British forces targeted numerous locations tied to the Houthi Militia’s weapons manufacturing and military efforts.
Region Middle East and North Africa
~300 Scud missiles stockpiled in 2015
2014 Current Yemen Civil War begins
~40 Number of chemical weapons attacks carried out by Egypt on Yemeni territory during the North Yemen Civil War in the 1960s
With force modernization as a topline issue, it was clear that the changing security landscape is reshaping the NATO members’ vision of the nuclear alliance.
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