The 8 most elite special forces in the world

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Elite special forces are some of the best-trained and formidable units that a country can boast.

They go where other soldiers fear to tread, scoping out potential threats, taking out strategic targets, and conducting daring rescue missions.
These really are the best of the best.

Although it's extremely difficult to rank these forces relative to each other, there are some units that rise above the rest in terms of their track record and the fear they instill in their adversaries. These soldiers have been through weeks of rigorous training exercises explicitly designed to weed out those who can't hit their exacting standards.

In a world where the importance of the sheer size of a country's military forces is no longer a guide to their effectiveness, these soldiers are the ones state's look to in order to get the job done.


8) The Special Services Group, SSG, in Pakistan is better known in the country as the “Black Storks" due to the commandos' unique headgear. Training reportedly includes a 36-mile march in 12 hours and a five-mile run in 20 minutes in full gear.

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In October 2009, SSG commandos stormed an office building and rescued 39 people taken hostage by suspected Taliban militants after an attack on the army's headquarters.

7) Spain's Unidad de Operaciones Especiales, or the Naval Special Warfare Force as it has become since 2009, has long been one of Europe's best respected special forces. Originally established as the volunteer Amphibious Climbing Company unit in 1952, it has since followed the SAS's example to become an elite fighting force.​

Earning the UOE green beret, however, is a big ask with the failure rate of candidates averaging 70-80%. It's not uncommon for 100% of new recruits to be rejected.​

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6) Russia's Alpha Group is one of the best known special forces units in the world. This elite anti-terrorism unit was created by the KGB in 1974 and remains under its modern day counterpart, the FSB.

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Russian special forces, and the Alpha Group in particular, came under criticism during the 2002 Moscow hostage crisis where 129 hostages died from the effects of the gas used to knock-out militants who had seized a theatre.

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5) Of all the counter-terrorism forces in the world, few can compete with France's National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN). The group is 200-strong and trained specifically to respond to hostage situations. They claim to have freed over 600 people since they were formed in 1973. It is against French law to publish pictures of their faces.

One of the most extraordinary episodes in the GIGN's history was the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979. Due to the prohibition on non-Muslims entering the holy city a team of three GIGN commandos briefly converted to Islam before helping the Saudi armed forces to plan the recapture of the mosque.

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4) Israel's Sayeret Matkal is another of the world's most elite units. Its primary purpose is intelligence-gathering and it often operates deep behind enemy lines. During the selection camp (Gibbush), would-be recruits endure hardcore training exercises while being constantly monitored by doctors and psychologists. Only the strongest get in.

In 2003, Israeli taxi driver Eliyahu Gurel was kidnapped after transporting four Palestinians to Jerusalem in his cab. But the Sayeret Matkal unit located and rescued him from a 10-meter-deep pit in an abandoned factory in a suburb of Ramallah.

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3) The British Special Air Service (or SAS as they are more commonly known), are the infantry counterparts to the SBS. Their insignia bears the famous phrase "Who dares wins." Asked about the importance of the SAS's role in the fighting that followed the Iraq war, US General Stanley McChrystal responded: "Essential. Could not have done it without them."

2) The UK equivalent of the Navy SEALS is the Special Boat Service. The selection process involves a gruelling endurance test, jungle training in the rainforests of Belize, and combat survival training, which involves intense interrogation of candidates. And you only get two attempts to pass.

1) But the US Navy SEALS might one-up even the marines. To join their ranks, you have to be able to do a minimum of 42 push-ups in two minutes, 50 sit-ups in two minutes, and run 1.5 miles in 11 minutes. And that's BEFORE training even starts.

BONUS: The US Marines are pretty hardcore in their own right. Below, a US Marine drinks the blood of a cobra during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai Navy as part of the "Cobra Gold 2014" joint military exercise.

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[Typhoon]

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Aur bhindiano ka ye haal ke unke fauji television pe a ke ro rahe hote hein ke humare paas purani bandoqe hein, naxalwarhiye se isi lie kisi dhobi ghaat ke woff woff ki tarha pitt rahe hein HAHAHAHA
Pakistan will eat you bhindia in any case of war.
Like we did in 1948, when we took back whats is now Azad Kashmir, and in 1965 when bhindians came to take Lahore,,,,,Lahore kya lena tha ulta Khem Karan Pakistan ke under a gaya....Shastri kisi paltu ki tarha bhagta bhagta american sarkar ke aage gaya hath shath jorhe....aur in roti shaklo ko shimla agreement ke tehet Khem Karan wapis kar dia.
Kargil mein inki aisi band bajai, ke ye phir bhagte bhagte american sarkar ke paas gae aur jang band karane ki bheek mangi, jispe jang band hoi.

Inke media cheekh cheekh ke keh raha he, inki army pitt pitt ke adh moi ho chali he ke inke paas jang ki surat mein sirf 20 din tak larhne ka saman maujood he.
HAHAHAHAHA
Arre tera to band bajj gaya KAALIAAAAA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Pak Falcon]

Re: The most elite special forces in the world

and where is China?

 

[Pathfinder]

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Ah wait SEAL better than SBS!! Really!!!

 

[Ali raza babar]

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You have no idea what the SSG and the Spestnaz are

 

[cheetah]

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Temporary conversion of French elites any further details anybody

 

[Vitamin_C]

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SSG are inferior to Spetsnaz. They lost many battles to Spetsnaz during Soviet Afghan war. And on battle for hill 3234, 250 black storks fought with 39 spetsnaz. Atleast 200 SSG were martyred and 6 spetsnaz killed in that battle.

You have no idea what the SSG and the Spestnaz are

 

[HIDDEN]

Re: The most elite special forces in the world

SSG are inferior to Spetsnaz. They lost many battles to Spetsnaz during Soviet Afghan war. And on battle for hill 3234, 250 black storks fought with 39 spetsnaz. Atleast 200 SSG were martyred and 6 spetsnaz killed in that battle.

Interesting! Do you have the source? I want to read the complete story.

 

[Vitamin_C]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Hill_3234

I think there is a movie on this as-well called 9th company.

Interesting! Do you have the source? I want to read the complete story.

 

[khan afghan1]

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You are right but all these special forces failed to achieve any target in Afghanistan except killing civilians during night raids.

In fact they are defeated by Taliban who don't run miles in minutes and who don't drink cobra blood and wearing no special gearing.
To fight a war one need cause of the war and a passion to die for motherland.

 

[HIDDEN]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Hill_3234

I think there is a movie on this as-well called 9th company.

Don't think they were SSG commandos. There are only two Russian sources citing the involvement of SSG. Even if SSG was involved, no one knows the number of commandos.

One more important point, high positions are always advantageous in a battle. See what happened in Kargil. only 500 men resisted troops that were 10 times larger in number for several days. Even the enemy's AF couldn't do much.

Similarly, Pakistan can't do much to recapture Siachin where Indians have similar strong positions.

In this case too, Spetsnaz were occupying the higher positions and Mujahidin were trying to go up the mountain to capture those positions. It was already a lost battle for Mujahidin. To win in these kind of situation, all the routes carrying supplies must be cut and wait for the troops to exhaust, be out of ammunition. Spetznaz never went out of supplies. This shows that it was not SSG, which was fighting there. Only untrained Mujahidin can do such mistakes.

Anyway, I may be wrong and only God knows what happened.

 

[Ali raza babar]

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SSG are inferior to Spetsnaz. They lost many battles to Spetsnaz during Soviet Afghan war. And on battle for hill 3234, 250 black storks fought with 39 spetsnaz. Atleast 200 SSG were martyred and 6 spetsnaz killed in that battle.

Do you even know when capturing a hill. Who has the advantage? The occupant.

Secondly Not 200 Ssg. 200 People. that included some ssg.
They were afghans

 

[Ali raza babar]

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Don't think they were SSG commandos. There are only two Russian sources citing the involvement of SSG. Even if SSG was involved, no one knows the number of commandos.

One more important point, high positions are always advantageous in a battle. See what happened in Kargil. only 500 men resisted troops that were 10 times larger in number for several days. Even the enemy's AF couldn't do much.

Similarly, Pakistan can't do much to recapture Siachin where Indians have similar strong positions.

In this case too, Spetsnaz were occupying the higher positions and Mujahidin were trying to go up the mountain to capture those positions. It was already a lost battle for Mujahidin. To win in these kind of situation, all the routes carrying supplies must be cut and wait for the troops to exhaust, be out of ammunition. Spetznaz never went out of supplies. This shows that it was not SSG, which was fighting there. Only untrained Mujahidin can do such mistakes.

Anyway, I may be wrong and only God knows what happened.

you r absolutely right

 

[Umm Abdillah]

Hmm. Secret forces are truly that secret if showcased on siasat.pk this way. I'm sure this world goes a lot deeper than that. Or at least rumours say so!

 

[HIDDEN]

Hmm. Secret forces are truly that secret if showcased on siasat.pk this way. I'm sure this world goes a lot deeper than that. Or at least rumours say so!

These are commando forces not the secret forces.

 

[Vitamin_C]

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I think the SSG got the name Black storks from the Soviet Afghan war because during the battles the soviet identified them with Black dress and black and yellow stripes. Most of the time they appeared alongside mujahidin when the fighting was close to the Pakistani border. This hill was an important because it was close to the border and connected Gardez to Khost which directly connects with Kohat in Pakistan, cutting off reinforcements and supplies from Pakistan. The reason why they could not cut off the resupply routes was that the Spetsnaz were receiving resupply via helicopters and they were in contact with their command. The article does say that it was a very coordinated attack from two sides which is why they realized they were against the SSG then they saw the dead wearing black and yellow stripes. Check out this guy he was from the US army converted to Islam and also faught against Spetsnaz in Chechnya. He wrote a book on these battles between SSG and Spetsnaz in Soviet-Afghan war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aukai_Collins

Don't think they were SSG commandos. There are only two Russian sources citing the involvement of SSG. Even if SSG was involved, no one knows the number of commandos.

One more important point, high positions are always advantageous in a battle. See what happened in Kargil. only 500 men resisted troops that were 10 times larger in number for several days. Even the enemy's AF couldn't do much.

Similarly, Pakistan can't do much to recapture Siachin where Indians have similar strong positions.

In this case too, Spetsnaz were occupying the higher positions and Mujahidin were trying to go up the mountain to capture those positions. It was already a lost battle for Mujahidin. To win in these kind of situation, all the routes carrying supplies must be cut and wait for the troops to exhaust, be out of ammunition. Spetznaz never went out of supplies. This shows that it was not SSG, which was fighting there. Only untrained Mujahidin can do such mistakes.

Anyway, I may be wrong and only God knows what happened.

 

[Umm Abdillah]

These are commando forces not the secret forces.

Reasonable.Thankyou.

 

[Respect]

Gotta give these elite trained officers respect, they are truly hard men.

 

[RiazHaq]

Pakistan Special Forces Commandos Ranked First in the World

Assessing Pakistan Army's Capabilities

Guest Post by Ahmad Faruqui.

“The (Pakistan) army had to retrain almost from scratch to meet the new challenge and it has done remarkably well in completely altering the training priority and emphasis in such a short period.”

Col. Brian Cloughley, author of “A History of the Pakistan Army”, talking about Pakistan Army's Counterinsurgency capability.

The Pakistani army’s war against the Taliban continues to make headlines. But there are several other reasons for the global interest in that institution.

The Pakistani army is one of the world’s largest and it is armed with nuclear weapons. It has fought three major wars with India and a few minor ones. Courtesy of four coups, it has ruled the country for more than half its history. And it maintains a sizable presence in the economy.

Brian Cloughley’s “History of the Pakistan Army” has just gone into its third edition and that makes him eminently qualified to rate the army’s combat effectiveness. He is a Briton who served as a colonel in the Australian army.

In Brian’s view, “The army is combat effective, with the caveat that there is always room for improvement. One problem is that large-scale exercises are extremely expensive. Given the fuel consumption of armored units, for example, the bill for a division-sized exercise becomes astronomical, and Pakistan can’t afford it. So, although the army is very good, it is suffering from lack of large-scale training.”

Of course, this lack of training could hide major weaknesses such as the ones the army has manifested in prior wars. For example, poor coordination of armor and infantry units blunted Pakistan’s counter-attack in the Kasur-Khem Karan sector in 1965 forcing Pakistan to the cease-fire table faster than anyone would have expected. But Brian felt such blunders were unlikely to be repeated.

I asked him whether the army had improved in the past decade. Brian said the army had been improving since General Aslam Beg’s tenure as army chief who “encouraged wider thinking about tactics.” In particular, a much better logistics chain was established and “contributed immensely to the army’s war-fighting capabilities.”

I asked him whether the army had learned much from the 1971 war. Given the one-sided nature of that war, Brian said the war yielded “little of tactical importance.” But a strategic lesson was learned, that “there is no point in going to war unless you are absolutely certain you have the capability to win.”

I asked him if there was a spirit of critical inquiry in today’s army. He said there were some very critical minds in the army and that some of the Corps Commanders’ meetings had been very argumentative. He pointed out those generals could speak up without risking their careers since only one or two were going to get the fourth star.

He said that training at the two-star level and above was “very good” but added that there was no way of knowing how today’s generals will perform in future wars. He also expressed a concern about “the standard of junior officers themselves. They are promoted too quickly and don’t serve with soldiers for long enough as lieutenants.”

I asked him about the army’s equipment. He said, “You will never get a soldier admitting that there are no equipment problems – probably because there are always some sort of problems, but from boots to tanks, things work, and that’s what matters.”

He added that in the past a major problem was that most of the critical, high powered equipment was imported. Now, about a third of the tanks were produced indigenously and the US M-113 armored personnel carriers had been modified and were being built from scratch. The army is almost self-sufficient in ammunition and aerial bombs. But all of the artillery continues to be imported.

I asked what threats preoccupy the army. He said terrorism and anarchy in the tribal areas: “The army had to retrain almost from scratch to meet the new challenge and it has done remarkably well in completely altering the training priority and emphasis in such a short period.”

Of course, the army contends that it continues to face a major threat along the Indian border and finding a “balance between commitment to NWFP/FATA and maintaining a credible deterrent in the east is difficult.” India continues to voice threats that any act of terror that originates from Pakistan will be followed by a short intense war.

However, Brian is convinced that “nobody could say that such a war would be short. It would almost certainly go nuclear very quickly.” To me, that raises the issue of why Pakistan needs to have such a large army now that it has gone overtly nuclear.

I asked if the army had concluded that national governance was not in its best interest since it detracted from its primary function. He said yes but qualified it by saying that if the army senses that the country is faced with a total breakdown, it may step in.

The problem, in my opinion, is that has always used this excuse to seize power in the past. One can only hope that if the army steps in for a fifth time, it will break from past practice and only stay in power long enough to hold elections and transfer power to the elected representatives.

I asked Brian if the army was able to carry out joint operations with the air force and the navy. He said joint-ness continued to be an area that needed improvement even though PAF-army cooperation had improved markedly in the recent war against the Taliban.

Brian added that true joint-ness would only arise when Pakistan appoints a Chief of Defense Force (as is the case in the UK) but conceded that he did not see that happening any time soon.

When asked to compare the Pakistani and Indian armies, he said the two were very similar with Pakistan having “an edge in quality of armor. This might appear strange, but is caused by India’s obsession with the ‘indigenous’ (foreign-engined) tank, the Arjun, which is a disaster.” He added, in so far as training and general professionalism were concerned, “I would be happy to serve in either army. You can’t get a greater compliment than that.”

Finally, I asked him to name the main weakness of the army. He said, “The army suffers from a shortage of junior officers, and especially from a dearth of high quality junior officers. This is going to have a debilitating effect as time goes on. The obvious answer is to make the career more attractive – that is, better pay. But it is impossible for the public sector to pay comparable salaries to those offered to graduates by commercial enterprises.”

Over all, the army got really good marks from Brian. Perhaps it has learned its lessons.

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[پرفیکٹ سٹرینجر]

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پاکستان کے حالات کی وجہ سے عوام بہت دکھی ہیں ان لطیفوں سے دکھ مزید نا بڑھائیں۔ ۔۔۔۔۔۔