Special Forces
- U.S. Army personnel trained to organize, instruct, supply, and supervise indigenous forces engaged in guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations, and to themselves conduct unconventional warfare.
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Also called Green Berets.
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Instead, he moved constantly, meaning the special-forces team would be going into a location that they knew little about.
But the burden of much of the campaign has fallen to special-forces units, supported by Predators.
And here I found the last piece of my narrative, in the British special-forces capability known as “The Increment.”
special forces
- élite, highly trained military forces, specially selected to work on difficult missions
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