wanted a base an indian ocean at all cost because of the cornwall diggle garcia has a most wonderful you know log on and that would really be the ideal place for a base so we were at odds or a wrong place if you know as. wrong place at that time because that place was a best place for the more sophisticated us than you can base outside of the us in the day in one nine hundred seventy one due to an agreement between the u.k. in the us the british made the island available to the americans as a military base because of its two strategic position and to put it its two thousand inhabitants today according to the pentagon diego garcia is one of the thirteen major u.s. military bases in the world and has played a crucial role in all post nine eleven conflicts. today live scattered between more issues in the united kingdom where for years they have been fighting a legal battle to return to them. in two thousand and eight though the house of lords overruled all the cases previously won by the which propelled their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we