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Parent topics
- Special operations [r]: Military or paramilitary operations that differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets; they are often controlled at a national or strategic level of command [e]
Subtopics
Units
- Luc Luong Dac Biet [r]: Special Forces of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; a paramilitary organization reporting to the office of President Ngo Dinh Diem before his overthrow, then a combination of a counterpart to United States Army Special Forces and a clandestine human-source intelligence and covert action organization, and eventually a pure counterpart organization. [e]
- MACV-SOG [r]: The U.S. organization responsible for covert operations against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, as well as related cross-border operations from South Vietnam into Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War; the abbreviation had an unclassified cover meaning, but was actually the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Special Operations Group [e]
- Nha Ky Thuat [r]: The most common Vietnamese term for a Republic of Vietnam organization for special operations, clandestine human-source intelligence, and, at one point, paramilitary operations against protesters in the Buddhist crisis of 1963; U.S. counterpart organizations included MACV-SOG and United States Army Special Forces [e]
- Sayeret Matkal [r]: Israeli Defense Forces elite special operations unit, battlefield or urban, with direct action, hostage rescue and special reconnaissance roles [e]
- U.K. Special Forces [r]: A UK Ministry of Defence Directorate which also has the capability to provide a Joint Special Operations Task Force Headquarters. [e]
- Special Air Service [r]: Special operations regular and Territorial Army regiments of the British Army, part of U.K. Special Forces [e]
- Special Boat Service [r]: U.K. Special Forces units specializing in waterborne operations, administratively part of the Royal Marines [e]
- Special Reconnaissance Regiment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Special Operations Command [r]: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification [e]
- Joint Special Operations Command [r]: A major subordinate unit of the United States Special Operations Command, which takes on the most sensitive covert military operations, usually working unacknowledged within the geographic area of a Unified Combatant Command [e]
- Air Force Special Operations Command [r]: The Air Component of United States Special Operations Command; lineage includes Air Commando units in the Vietnam War [e]
- Combat Control team [r]: United States Air Force specialists who land with the first paratroop or covert heliborne ground troops into an area, and survey the area from the perspective of aircraft-related information, provide air traffic control, direct close air support, and set up navigational aids. [e]
- Combat search and rescue [r]: The location and rescue of military and civilian personnel in hostile areas, such that a military operation is necessary to retrieve them [e]
- Special operations weather [r]: Part of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command, this is an additional qualification for weather technicians, such that they can operate deep behind enemy lines, plan the weather aspects of military operations, and train others in basic weather skills [e]
- Army Special Operations Command [r]: A command that trains and prepares U.S. Army special operations personnel, including United States Army Special Forces, and serves as the land forces component of United States Special Operations Command [e]
- Delta Force [r]: A generally covert U.S. Army unit in Joint Special Operations Command, specializing in hostage rescue and combat search and rescue, direct action, special reconnaissance, and counterterrorism. [e]
- United States Army Special Forces [r]: United States Army organization originally created to train and lead guerrillas, highly qualified to work with other cultures; acquired additional missions including foreign internal defense, direct action (military), special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, etc. [e]
- Marine Special Operations Command [r]: The Marine component of United States Special Operations Command, this unit absorbed the existing Marine special reconnaissance "Force Recon" companies (but not battalions), but also added a support organization, school, and a system of developing training teams for foreign internal defense and other special operations missions [e]
- Force Reconnaissance [r]: United States Marine Corps troops with a special reconnaissance mission; either Marine Air-Ground Task Force headquarters-controlled or part of United States Special Operations Command [e]
- Naval Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Navy SEAL [r]: [under]sea-air-land special operations organization of the United States Navy, specializing in direct action, special reconnaissance, combat search and rescue and counterterrorism [e]
Equipment
- Laser designator [r]: A device that puts a distinctive, usually invisible, pattern of laser energy on an object, for purposes such as designating the target of a laser-guided bomb [e]
- Enhanced Position Location Reporting System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/PRD-13 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Present and historical actions
- First Indochina War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vietnam War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation JUST CAUSE [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gulf War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraq War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unconventional warfare (United States doctrine) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- B-52 Superfortress (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Tora Bora [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Clandestine human-source intelligence and covert action [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Counterterrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dell Dailey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Donald Blackburn [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraq War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Mulholland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Direct Attack Munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MH-53 Pave Low [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operational Preparation of the Battlespace [r]: Add brief definition or description
- PRD-13 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vietnam War ground technology [r]: Add brief definition or description