Odd - the only time I've dealt with a foreign programming language was Algol 60 in French; ISTR the keywords were English, but that's all. It was long, long ago so I don't think I18N was a problem; we just ignored deviant spellings such as accents ... the terse french of comments was tricky at times, though. Will

Communications overload and levels of command is not a new military problem; for a good summary of how it played out in the British Navy, 1890-1916 try Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game.