The US-British Security Relationship

Rapport: "I was fairly surprised, I think, like most of the people who had been tracking the polls" He says his American relatives have taken an interest in British politics that never bubbled to the surface before. The biggest concern might be if you have a protracted kind of shrinking of the economy, Rapport says. But on the other hand, from the US perspective, it might be nice to have British units that had been earmarked for EU missions to be tagged for NATO missions instead.