The Iran war is starting to look less like a military problem confined to the battlefield and more like a supply-chain crisis spreading through ammunition, oil and food.
Pentagon dispute 18 months ago was prelude to problems in Iran
Soldiers, Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly drone strike
On a sunny, cloudless morning on March 1, the day after President Donald Trump started the war against Iran, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan was coordinating critical Army supplies out of Port Shuaiba in Kuwait.
In an instant, a drone crashed through the ceiling and exploded, killing Marzan, who had served in the military for 36 years. The force flung soldiers into the air, fragments of sheet metal and glass shards impaling them. The tin roof was peeled back “like opening up a sardine can,” one soldier recalled.
Six soldiers were killed and dozens were injured in the deadliest known strike on U.S. troops since Operation Epic Fury commenced on Feb. 28.
Shippers Offering Sailors $25,000 a Trip to Sneak Oil Out of Gulf
More tankers get through Strait of Hormuz despite Iranian threats in burgeoning system of risky shuttle runs that cost up to $40 million
Stockpiles ‘scarily thin’, warns Saudi energy boss
The world’s oil stockpiles are “scarily thin”, the boss of Saudi Arabia’s state oil company has warned.
Amin Nasser, the president and chief executive of Saudi Aramco, said Western nations had used their “last major tool in the box” by releasing emergency reserves last week to keep supplies flowing.
Speaking at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London, Mr Nasser said: “The system is already strained, and with precious little else the world can turn to, the supply resilience cushion is scarily thin.”
G7 nations announced on Friday that they would release 100 million barrels of crude oil and fuel in response to pressure from Donald Trump, who had threatened to impose a US export ban on diesel.
Available fertilizer capacity has fallen by nearly 40% since the strait was disrupted
MASS GLOBAL FAMINE is what's coming in 2027. That's my prediction. Here's a clip from my recent podcast. Crop yields are lower, fertilizer is increasingly scarce, and diesel shortages are making farming insanely expensive. We are going to see anywhere from 500 million to ONE… pic.twitter.com/LH1bxfeEOB
— HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) September 18, 2026
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