Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10941901-20130723221328/@comment-8245466-20130724003610

I think it was more of a tribute to Foxhound, since she idolized the unit growing up when men like Roy Campbell and Solid Snake were members, and I'm not sure if she ever changed her mind about it (unlike her opinion of Snake).

Since by the 1990's, the Patriots have control over virtually every government agency and organization, I can't see how they wouldn't be secretly controlling Foxhound, in the sense that as a special forces unit it was probably under the command of the CIA or the DOD who certainly were under the Patriot's control. It's probably safe to say that Ocelot joined Foxhound as a Patriot spy, probably to keep an eye on Liquid Snake as I doubt the Patriots ever trusted him. Prior to Ocelot, it's unknown whether any other Patriot spies had infiltrated Foxhound's ranks during Big Boss's time as commander-in-chief, but I'm sure they kept an eye on him.

Which brings us to the real question- while we can certainly think of reasons why Big Boss might be allowed to take back control of Foxhound (The Patriots wanted to keep a close eye on him, they needed his help, etc.) I can't think of how such a powerful and watchful organization could be duped into missing that, while Big Boss was commander-in-chief of Foxhound he was also building up Outer Heaven. The only thing I can think of is, if Cipher began construction of the proxy AIs during MGS V, then perhaps Big Boss somehow manages to delete pertinent information related to his activities with MSF from the AI database, thereby creating a window of opportunity for him to regain control of Foxhound whilst simultaneously planning his uprising... similair to how Ocelot used the damaged GW to hide within the Patriot's network.