Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
Nothing about John.....but the UK military has been on life support for about the last 15 or so years actually ever since 1991....the AF and Navy are barely a shadow of their formers selves and the Army is struggling as well for any long term deployments and when the financial crisis deepens what tax monies are they going to get to improve all the services.....

To hunt Russian subs the French had to loan search ships and French and NATO have picked up some of the air defense patrolling......
Agreed, but I expect his focus is on intelligence and pre-conflict work. Plus having the 'Special Relationship' enables US access to some strategic places, often islands e.g. Diego Garcia and skill sets the USA may not have.