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Sorry, nope. The problem is this: US and British think-tanks like the one where that 'paper' was published are all 'advising' Saudis already since decades.

Some of think-tanks (most are controlled by what is called the 'Carlyle Group', which has several ex-US presidents and National Security Advisers - or various of their aides - on its paylist) are cashing hundreds of millions for their 'advice', and are also 'steering' Saudi investments worth billions - and that every single year, already since mid-1980s. Such like the Carlyle Group are then 'outsourcing' military/security related 'analysis' to think-tanks like IISS, Jamestown and whatever/whoever else is around.

(To make sure: no, this is no 'conspiracy theory'; read Robert Baer's 'Sleeping with the Devil' and see for yourself.)

Only a few of think-tanks in question - take WINEP as example - are at least serious enough to send their people to the ME and let them talk with decisionmakers and participants, and then report correspondingly. However, while their reporting is thus more serious, even their publications are never going to contain a clear analysis of what went wrong, i.e. a serious critique and 'finger pointing'.

Bottom line: expecting they would ever be as frank and/or as sincere as to publicly admit the Saudis are plain dumb to follow their advice (which is a well-supported matter of fact at least since the British convinced the Saudis to get involved in Yemen, back in October 1962), is like expecting the Sun would go up in the West tomorrow in the morning. Nobody is as crazy as to slaughter his milk-cow. At most, they publish such 'critique' like mentioned above, blaming Saudis for this or that - while actually it was them who pushed Saudis to bring such decisions.

Little surprise then, if reports like this one are full of nonsense and factually incorrect.

Still works for me, but here's an Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/Tribes-Politics-Yemen-History-Conflict/dp/0190673591/