Historian Michael Oren (former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S) wrote that Egypt's military adventure in Yemen was so disastrous that "the imminent Vietnam War could easily have been dubbed America's Yemen."
Historikeren Michael Oren (tidligere israelisk ambassadør i USA) skrev at Ægyptens militære deltagelse i Yemen var så katastrofal at Vietnamkrigen sagtens kunne være blevet kaldt Amerikas Yemen.