Sky News employ two military analysts: Professor Michael Clarke and Air Vice Marshall (Rtd.) Sean Bell, who between them kick BBC analysis far into touch.
Following Priti Patel and others calls for the UK to become involved in the war, the latter made the point this afternoon that the best reason not to was that we’d become – from an Ianian point of view – a legitimate target for Iranian ballistic missiles, which can reach the UK but not the USA; and furthermore he said that we lack any ground-based defences, such as Israel’s ‘iron dome’ technology, to intercept such missiles
Be warned bellicose members of the British ‘elite’.