Is the Yemen war a proxy one or a border dispute

Summary

• Things came to head when in 2015 with the real king of Saudi Arabia apparently inactive; Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, his heir apparent Mohammad Bin Salman commonly referred to as MBS decided to plunge into the Yemeni political quagmire on behalf of its puppet government in exile to fight what the Saudi considered the Iranian threat in the form of the Zaidi Shia Houthi militia.
• However, the introduction of the ground forces made up from the Makkah pact states suggested strongly that what was at stake was not the elimination of the Houthi movement, rather what was being threatened was the territorial integrity of the Saudi southern flank, which if the Ottoman era records are studied, will make it clear that provinces like Jizan, Taiz, Abha not to forget Najran and other small governorates were never Saudi in essence, but tempered upon by the Saudi- Yemeni border commission equivalent of Redcliffe who without any qualms sliced much of the Yemeni territory in favor of the pro west Saudi monarchy.
• If the current competence of the Saudi forces is evaluated and their dependence upon Pakistani and Turkish ground forces, a fact authenticated by the Pakistani military spokesman about the later forces’ participation, it is a do or die for the Saudi monarchy while for the Yemenis; read Houthi it is like reclaiming what has been theirs but confiscated by the departing colonial power in favor of the compliant local actor.

AI Generated Summary

There are conflicting reports about the ongoing battles between the Saudi forces and the Yemeni forces; best represented by the South Yemen Houthi tribes, who profess the Zaidi Shia faith. A cursory look at the print media, the electronic media and the Twitter reveals conflicting claims and counter claims. Other than that, the media seems to report it as yet another proxy war between the Shia Iran and the Sunni Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, with few journalists or analysts taking any interest in going beyond and looking at the conflict in a more objective way.

The lack of objectivity stems from the hard fact that the conflict as said above is treated as proxy theater and thus accordingly the news stories are filed with compromised objectivity. As that lack of objectivity stems in there are increasing chances that the incidence of false reporting creating a ground for false flag can sway the perception on the conflict to the points which are not present in the first place. Ironically Pakistan has not hidden its involvement in the conflict, which quietly suggests that the establishment is somewhat ready to deal with baggage accruing out of participation in such conflicts.