The Saudi-Iranian War

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Prince Ali bin Sultan grit his teeth in frustration at the familiar sight. His tank company was too late again, and the missile had already been fired at Riyadh. Though the missile attacks were a response to Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen's civil war, now they were a principle reason for the growing number of Saudi troops in Yemen. The possibility that if the Saudis left Yemen the attacks might stop genuinely never occurred to Ali, or for that matter to any other member of the Saudi royal family.

Ali surveyed the ballistic missile launch site from the cupola of his M1A2 tank, identical to all of the other eleven tanks in the company deployed for this mission. He spotted smoke that was still rising from some of the debris ignited by the back blast from the missile's launch, and smiled grimly. They were getting closer.

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