Conflicts to Watch in The New Millennium

On 30 June an HRW report stated that US-made bombs were being used in attacks
indiscriminately targeting civilians and violating the laws of war. The report
photographed "the remnants of an MK-83 air-dropped 1,000-pound bomb made in the
US".
US Representative Ted Lieu has been publicly raising concerns over US support for
Saudi-led war in Yemen. In March 2016, he sent a letter to Secretary of State John
Kerry and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. He wrote in the letter that the "apparent
indiscriminate airstrikes on civilian targets in Yemen seem to suggest that either the
coalition is grossly negligent in its targeting or is intentionally targeting innocent
civilians". Following American concern about civilian casualties in the Saudi-led war in
Yemen, the US military involvement is mostly ineffective due to coalition's airstrikes
targeting civilian and hospitals.
In 2015 the United States deployed The Green Berets to assist the Saudi Arabian
military with missile interception.
In September 2016, Senators Rand Paul and Chris Murphy worked to prevent the
proposed sale of $1.15 billion in arms from the US to Saudi Arabia. The US
Senate voted 71 to 27 against the Murphy–Paul resolution to block the US–Saudi arms
deal. CNN's Wolf Blitzer questioned Senator Paul's reasoning during an interview,
stating that cutting off military aid would hurt the profits of the arms industry. "So for you
this is a moral issue," he told Senator Paul on CNN. "Because you know, there's a lot of
jobs at stake. Certainly if a lot of these defense contractors stop selling war planes,
other sophisticated equipment to Saudi Arabia, there's going to be a significant loss of
jobs, of revenue here in the United States. That's secondary from your
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