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Leonid Faerberg · SOPA · LightRocket · Getty Abu Dhabi’s crown prince Muhammad Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (‘MBZ’) the United Arab Emirates (UAE) strongman and an influential figure in the wider Arab world attended the biennial International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) in February 2019, surrounded by foreign leaders. IDEX brings all the defence sector’s major players to Abu Dhabi, capital of the UAE, and it opened with a full-scale military display, when UAE-made Nimr all-terrain vehicles, US armoured vehicles and French tanks were shown in Hollywood-spectacular style to convey the military and geopolitical ambitions of ‘Little Sparta’, as US General James Mattis called the UAE in 2011, when he was head of Centcom, the US Central Command.

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