Definition of "UAE"

Kuwait immediately put its small forces on alert (although it did not request US help). The UAE, whose offshore oil rigs Baghdad had attacked during the Iran-Iraq war, followed suit on July 22, but they also asked us to send aerial tankers and participate in a joint military exercise.

1998, George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed‎, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 309