The North Yemen Civil War

  2.   The North Yemen Civil War was fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between royalist partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and followers of the Yemen Arab Republic. The war was originated with a coup d'état who were carried out in 1962 by revolutionary republicans led by the army in the command of Abdullah as-Sallal, who dethroned the recently crowned Imam Muhammad al-Badr and stated Yemen a republic under his presidency. The Imam fled to the Saudi Arabian border where he rallied popular help from northern Shia tribes to retake power, escalating shortly to a full-scale civil war.

     As a result for this war a lot of families have been immigrated to Europe and Norther America and they established not only a family business but also empires. Like Gazy’s Group and their Pakistanis partners.

     The Gazy’s were always thinking about going back home not only with their families but also with their investments. But the situation in Yemen nowadays is not different from the old days when they left their homes to the nowhere…………, so they were thinking to return to the Arab Field through the Saudi Market.

     What was the concept that Gazy’s based their thinking on when they start considering the Saudi market? The answer will be a strategic management concept.

     Strategic management can be referred to as the art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decision that allow an organization to achieve its objectives. As this definition indicates, strategic management focuses on incorporating and mixing management, marketing, financing/accounting, research and development, and information system to achieve organization success.

      The purpose of the strategic management is to exploit and create new and different opportunities for tomorrow; long term planning, in contrast, tries to optimize for tomorrow the trends of today. So The Gazy’s and their Pakistanis partners decided to invest in the Saudi Market instead of the Yemeni Market.

     Relations with Saudi Arabia have always been a central mark of Yemeni foreign policy, not merely because the Saudi Arabia kingdom is the leading state in the peninsula and Yemen’s most important neighbour, but also because the Saudis’ awareness of their security needs is that they should pursue to influence Yemen as much as possible in order to prevent it from becoming a threat.

     The number of Yemenis living in Saudi Arabia perhaps approached two million at its peak. Perhaps these two million make the Gazy’s thinks in a sentimental way, but according to their history is immigration and what they suffered they will prefer the rational approach to their decision making, so they sure have uneasiness that their investments may have repercussions in KSA.

       In Yemen, Saudi Arabian directed military intervention has escalated the tension to sectarian civil war as the fighting continues; this conflict has made an impact on the oil markets, leaving investors wondering how the Yemen crisis will affect oil prices. This civil war can be anticipated to last for years causing violence together with religious terrorist actions and affect the energy security negatively.