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OK I get that pressing the pickle button is a pretty strong sign you are involved in military ops. But let's put this in context. The air campaign for the theatre is run from a joint HQ full of Brits, many in key posts, air C2 is from a UK AWACS, UK RJ, sentinel, reaper and shadow are doing ISR and our tanker is giving out gas to other nations aircraft. All of this revealed by SoS yesterday. At times during airstrikes over Syria most of the voices over the RT will be British with just the strike aircraft chipping in. Much of the planning and execution will invoke Brits in the HQ and much of the int will be sourced and processed by Brits. Dropping the weapon represents the last 5% of the mission albeit a rather important 5%.
We are already in Syria ladies and gents. We shouldn't need a couple of exchange officers dropping a few GBUs to tell us that.
Yes, but it is that last 5% that is the most politically explosive.