One could say that the country is in a state of permanent war since 1962.

Back as of 1962, there was no ‘Yemen’ as we know it nowadays.

One could say that the country is in a state of permanent war since 1962. But, as everything in regards of Yemen… ‘it’s complex’.

Back as of 1962, there was no ‘Yemen’ as we know it nowadays.

There was the Imamate of Yemen (dominated by Zaidi Shia’s), or Northern Yemen, which was — at least officially — actually a part of the United Arab Republic (union of Egypt, Syria and the Imamate of Yemen, established in 1958, but abandoned by Syria in 1961).

And, there was the (British) Crown Colony of Aden.

In 1962, multiple cliques plotted against Imam, but the one supported by Egyptians was quickest. It launched a bloody coup and then invited Egyptians to deploy their military in support of the newly-declared Republic of Yemen. The Imam managed to flee to Saudi Arabia, and then the British convinced Saudis to finance his insurgency against Egyptians.

That’s how the Yemen Civil War of 1962–1970 began.

In the Crown Colony of Aden there was an (Egypt-supported) anti-British insurgency since the mid-1960s and this continued at a low scale after the country was released into independence, in 1970 (if my memory serves me well).