Special Forces

plural noun

1. U.S. Army personnel trained to organize, instruct, supply, and supervise local forces engaged in guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations, and to themselves conduct unconventional warfare.

special forces

plural noun

1. élite, highly trained military forces, specially selected to work on difficult missions

Example Sentences

Two former heads of all UK Special Forces suppressed evidence of possible SAS war crimes, a former high-ranking officer has told a public inquiry in closed evidence sessions.

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Special Forces to capture or kill drug bosses, according to people familiar with bilateral security discussions.

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Special Forces operatives have worked with American videogame company Activision Blizzard as advisers on its phenomenally successful Call of Duty first-person shooter franchise, while the U.S. military has used such games to boost recruitment.

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The physical risk resulting from this leak to those members of UK Special Forces whose names were on the leaked dataset is judged to be minimal.

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He obtained the details after they were sent out from UK Special Forces headquarters in an accidental data breach in February 2022.

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