To the SAS, the SBS are known derisorily as the “Shaky Boats Service” – typically shortened to just the “Shakies”. And to the SBS, the SAS are often seen as the gloryboys – a unit ...

It is understood that relations became strained after it was decided that the SAS would replace the SBS as the leading Special Forces unit in Afghanistan. The SAS transferred to the country from ...

Elite troops from the SAS and SBS are hunting down those responsible for a string of suspicious drone flights over American air bases, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Special Forces soldiers are ...

Taken together, the documents – totalling hundreds of pages – paint a picture of the SAS's arrival in Afghanistan in 2009 and the way in which it took over hunting the Taliban from the SBS.