# Tom Sharpe

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British troops caught in “The war of losers”

Iran’s strikes on US military bases in the Middle East are a blunt reminder that British servicemen and women deployed in the region face real risks. Professor Michael Clarke assesses the dangers while former Royal Navy Commander Tom Sharpe explains the options for British ships which had been stan…

Strikes close key Saudi oil pipeline after Houthis ask Trump not to bomb them

A strike from militants in Iraq has knocked out Saudi Arabia’s vital East-West oil pipeline, as Donald Trump reveals Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels called him asking the US not to get militarily involved.  On today’s episode of Iran: The Latest, Roland Oliphant talks to chief foreign affairs com…

Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran as China upgrades Djibouti military base

Donald Trump has once again threatened to "annihilate" the Iranian regime, saying he faces a major decision on how to proceed with the Iran war but will consult with his Gulf allies at the UN General Assembly next week first.  On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant speaks to former…

Why Britain Is One Cut From Disaster

This week, James Glancy is joined by Tom Sharpe on WARZONES to discuss Russia’s naval threat to Britain’s undersea cables - the lines that carry most of the country’s data, banking and communications, with little redundancy and little protection. A deniable cut in the Atlantic, paired with cyber at…

Ukrainian outages tighten Central European steel supply

Ukrainian production outages and rising fuel costs have focussed Central European steel buyers’ attentions on domestic coil supply, MEPS’s latest Market in Minutes podcast reveals. A tightening of supply in Poland and Czechia helped to support the price of coil products assessed by MEPS in its late…

How the Iran war exposed the US Navy’s chronic problems

The US Navy is facing increasingly long deployments as depleted interceptor stockpiles as aircraft carriers struggle to cope with Donald Trump’s eight-month Iran war and other commitments. Is America overstretched at sea? On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant is joined by RUSI nav…

Trump readies new Iran strikes as Strait of Hormuz attacks ramp up

Donald Trump is reportedly readying to restart major combat operations against Iran and alongside former war-partner Israel - before the US midterm elections. On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks to Richard Meade, editor-in-chief of Lloyd’s List, about how such an escalati…