| Enjoy full access to our free-thinking journalism for less than 50p per week | | US marines in training on Diego Garcia |  | Henry Bodkin Jerusalem Correspondent | Much of the talk over the weekend has been about US boots on the ground.
Donald Trump is considering a military operation to extract almost 1,000lb of uranium from Iran, according to a report.
Hundreds of US Special Operations forces have arrived in the Middle East, and although the troops are yet to be assigned specific missions, they could be deployed to help safeguard the Strait of Hormuz, seize Kharg Island or extract uranium from Iran’s nuclear site.
Meanwhile, a precision strike by Iran on a US base’s battlefield nerve centre feels like a significant moment.
The mangled frame of the four-engined US air force jet stands on the runway of Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.
Amid the twisted metal, what looks like a large flying saucer lies upside down. | The E-3 Sentry aircraft after an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack, in a picture verified by AFP | It is, or was, the rotating radar dome that usually sits above the E-3 Sentry; one of the jewels in America’s military crown – essentially a $500m (£375m) spy in the sky that allows commanders to track everything in the air across hundreds of miles. As of Friday morning, the United States had 16 of the vital but ageing Cold War-era aircraft, with roughly 40 per cent of the fleet deployed to the Middle East.
Now they have 15, after Iran attacked Prince Sultan air base with, it is believed, ballistic missiles and drones, injuring 12 US personnel, two seriously, and damaging up to five air-to-air refuelling tankers.
The point of impact, just where the radar dome attaches to the Sentry, suggests a precision strike by a drone, a more accurate weapon than a ballistic missile when used by Iran.
It also hints at a worrying level of intelligence on the part of Tehran, and as the conflict rages on, echoes of the war in Ukraine grow louder.
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Remember everything you were told about how reading is the key to knowledge, and knowledge is the key to success? Well, those claims are now being challenged, by none other than Britain’s elites. According to The Telegraph’s new class survey, they simply don’t have time for books. When, after all, did Middlemarch ever help pay for a ski trip?
It’s a shame, argued Sam Leith, given that we once had leaders like Gladstone, who wrote three volumes on Homer, not to mention Disraeli, the novelist and occasional prime minister. Though my own habits are hardly exemplary (treating any book longer than 300 pages with extreme suspicion), I agree, and so do many Telegraph readers. Keeping up with the other 7 per cent is all very well, but there is more to life.
“How very sad,” wrote M Gudenian. “I was brought up in a house full of books, and I live in a house full of books. Each is a friend.”
Andrew Harding added: “I went to a rubbish state school and it took me years to get into books. What a difference they make to life, firing up the brain and imagination.”
Ed Nelson recalled: “My father worked in industry and my mother never ‘worked’, but they finished The Times crossword most days because they were educated and the house was full of books.”
Chris Hayes took a different view: “I think people are acquiring knowledge in different ways. Reading books is pretty time-consuming and that’s probably the limiting factor. I’m not sure I’d put myself in the elite, but it’s been a long time since I read a novel (apart from my son’s GCSE texts so that we can discuss them).
“That said, I spend a lot of time reading for work and keep abreast of current affairs through newspapers, a few magazines and Substacks. Otherwise, it’s audiobooks and podcasts while walking the dog. One thing I don’t do is watch TV.” Should we expect better of our elites? Send your responses here and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, to which you can sign up here.
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