UAE counter-terrorism forces have concluded their long mission in Yemen. But it is worth looking back over the past 10 years of service and sacrifice, as well as peering into the future of the relationship, too.
I have a special connection to this story, having watched with my own eyes as UAE and Yemeni soldiers fought terrorist armies in Yemen, shoulder to shoulder. Some of the stories of that partnership are told in the first two books of my Yemen war trilogy, 25 Days to Aden and The Race for Mukalla, and in the third volume, which is presently being written, The Battle for the Red Sea.
There is a select cadre of Emiratis who literally spent years of their life throughout the past decade de
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