"Special" Forces

>Fear of a repeat of the events in Somalia shaped U.S. policy in subsequent years, with many commentators identifying the Battle of Mogadishu's graphic consequences as the key reason behind the U.S.'s failure to intervene in later conflicts such as the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. According to the U.S.'s former deputy special envoy to Somalia, Walter Clarke: "The ghosts of Somalia continue to haunt US policy. Our lack of response in Rwanda was a fear of getting involved in something like a Somalia all over again."

That's pretty thin.

That worst part is that the soldiers killed in Mogadishu are the exactly the kind the guys who would have volunteered to jump into Rwanda to shut down the death squads.

Refusing to intervene in their name was arguably a greater insult to their memory.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Ostend_Raid

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid

Y'all are forgetting the single largest commando raid in history.

>why don't we invade France for a little bit and then leave?
>okay, how many people you think we'll need?
>I dunno, maybe 6,000
>what if they all get killed?
>fuck it, just use Canadians

As a bonus point, it pissed off Hitler so badly that he ordered that all commandos taken prisoner from then on be shot on sight.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_raid_on_Larnaca_International_Airport

Out of the way Plebs, Patrician coming through.

What defines "special forces"? The swedes have an all-female unit called jergentroppen or something that the call "special forces", but they aren't trained to nearly the same level, and basically all they do is take care of women and children when the regular infantry clears a house. Does that make them special forces if they have a special job?

The wind had reached gale-force as the five elderly Bristol Bombay transport aircraft neared their target, bucking in the storm and threatening to flip over.
Driven sand and pelting rain covered the cockpits. The pilots strained to see ahead into the dark sky over the North African desert.
Suddenly, German searchlights picked them out and flak began exploding around them in blinding flashes. A shell ripped through the floor of one plane and missed the auxiliary fuel tank by inches.
In the back of each aircraft sat a ‘stick’ of 11 British parachutists, 55 soldiers in all; almost the entire strength of a new, experimental and intensely secret combat unit. The fledgling Special Air Service — the SAS — was on its first mission behind enemy lines.

First, canisters containing explosives, Tommy guns, ammunition, food, water, maps, blankets and medical supplies were tossed out. Then, one by one, the men hurled themselves into the seething darkness.
First out was Captain David Stirling, the creative genius behind this whole new enterprise. Seconds later, he hit the desert floor with such force that he blacked out. When he came to, he was being dragged along by his parachute ‘like a kite’ in a 40mph wind, whipped and grated across sharp gravel and rocks.
He struggled to release himself and staggered to his feet, covered in lacerations and pouring blood.
It took him two hours to gather what remained of his team. One man had vanished completely. Another had broken an ankle and could not stand. A sergeant broke his back on landing and could not even crawl.
The supply canisters were nowhere to be found, leaving Stirling’s unit armed only with revolvers, a handful of grenades and barely a day’s supply of water. As an attacking force, they were now useless.

The rwandan genocide could have been smaller or avoided if no foreign troops blocked the RPF

Germany's "very special" forces (also known as 'Sturmtruppen') storm a fort during WW1

nobody forgot anything, retard