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Originally posted by echidna@9 May 2003 - 13:31
i think the language comes into it but that just makes it kind of easier for them
i know that britain started buying lots of seahawk and black hawk choppers just after rupert murdoch became a US citizen [rupert prints just about every newspaper in britain]
i think it's a 'we've got the bomb and a common language club' to some extent too it must be very easy to deploy US and UK troops beside each other as far as comms and compatability [always different rules of engagment though]
Rupert Murdoch owns Sky TV and the Times Group (which includes The Times (which the people that own the country read...ie not that many) and The Sun, (which is a Tabloid read by millions for a laugh and to see the page 3 Girl)