The decision by the United Arab Emirates to withdraw its troops from Yemen was a tactical maneuver in a regional landscape witnessing several strategic challenges by other equally interested parties. In addition to Yemen, other countries abutting the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea remain essential to Abu Dhabi's foreign policy of exerting economic and military influence. These include Somalia's federated states of Somaliland and Puntland, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia ...