“HOW BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IS FROZEN IN THE RUINS OF EMPIRE”
by Adam Ramsay in Declassified UK
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“Bases on British overseas territories – namely, Gibraltar; Ascension Island; Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus; and Diego Garcia – play particularly important roles in projecting US power.
These bases are all vital nodes in the Pentagon’s global surveillance system. For example, there are four main ‘ground antennae’ in the Global Positioning System (GPS). Two of these are on US territory, in Florida and Hawaii, and two are on British territory, on Ascension Island and Diego Garcia, providing circumglobal spread”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/british-foreign-policy-is-frozen-in-the-ruins-of-empire/
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