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Hello and welcome back to the Americano Show. My name is Freddie Gray. I am the deputy editor of the spectator and the US editor. And I'm pleased to tell you that this is the 10th year of the

Americano podcast. And I think it's fair to say it's been a fairly fascinating time in American

politics, life and culture. And that's what we talk about every

episode on this podcast. So please keep listening and provide as much feedback as you like.

Hello and welcome back to the Americano show. A special transatlantic edition of the

Americano show because I'm in New York, and I'm

delighted to be joined through our Riverside studio by David Davis, the very distinguished

conservative politician, and Richard Williams, a former SAS commander, who has written a piece

for the spectator that got quite a bit of attention yesterday

because it seems to have hit a nerve, Richard. The upshot, really, of it, is that the American

armed forces, the Pentagon, are very unhappy with the British government at the moment.

And in your piece, you talk about their particular unhappiness in relation to the trust that has been built up between

American special forces, Delta Force, and the SAS and the SBS. Can you explain a little bit about your piece?

Sure. Well, thank you very much.

It's a very serious issue.

The relationship between what we call the Tier 1,

that's the top end, most ready, most trained end of special forces

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