List of defunct special forces units

List of defunct special forces units

=flagicon|Australia Australia=

*Australian commandos
*No. 200 Flight RAAF
*Royal Australian Navy Beach Commandos
*Z Special Unit
*Combined Field Intelligence Service
*M Special Unit

flagicon|Canada Canada

*1st Special Service Force

flagicon|GermanyGermany

*Brandenburgers

flagicon|Fiji Fiji

*Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/fiji/1344426/Fijian-coup-colonel-took-part-in-SAS-blunder.html Fijian coup colonel took part in SAS blunder.] Retrieved on September 19, 2008.]

flagicon|IsraelIsrael

*Unit 101
*Force 100
*Sayeret Haruv
*Sayeret Rimon
*TAT'ZAM

flagicon|ItalyItaly

;Regia Marina
*Decima Flottiglia MAS

flagicon|PortugalPortugal

*Flechas
*Grupos Especiais

flagicon|Rhodesia Rhodesia

*Selous Scouts
*Rhodesian Special Air Service

flagicon|Syria Syria

*Defense companies

flagicon|Turkey Turkey

*Hakkari Dağ Komando Tugayı

flagicon|United KingdomUnited Kingdom

; British Army
*Army Commandos
*Chindits
*Long Range Desert Group
*Popski's Private Army [Popski's Private Army,Vladimir Peniakoff,Nelson Doubleday publisjing]
*Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

;Royal Navy
*Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment
*British commando frogmen

;Combined Operations
*30 Assault UnitFact|date=September 2008

;Directorate of Military Intelligence
*Force 136
*Special Operations Executive
*Small Scale Raiding Force

flagicon|United StatesUnited States

;The Civil War
* Jessie Scouts
* Mosby's Raiders
* Quantrill's Raiders

;World War II
* 1st Special Service Force "Devil's Brigade"
* 5307th Composite Unit (provisional) "Merrill's Marauders"
* Ranger Battalions
* Alamo Scouts
* Alaskan Scouts
* Marine Raiders
* Paramarines
* Marine Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion
* Naval Scouts and Raiders
* Navy Combat Demolition Units (NCDU) and Underwater Demolitions Teams (UDT)
* 1st Air Commando Group

;Korean War
* Airborne Ranger Companies
* Joint Advisory Commission, Korea (JACK)

;Vietnam War
* Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol
* MIKE Force
* Tiger Force
* Project "Leaping Lena" (Vietnam War)
* Project DELTA
* Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group
* Project Sigma and Project Omega

;Other
* 6th Special Forces Group
* "Blue light"
* Task Force Bayonet
* US Army Special Operations Command
* SEASPRAY
* Red Cell
* Task Force Ranger (Operation Gothic Serpent)
* Task Force 11 (Operation Enduring Freedom)
* Task Force 20, Task Force 121 (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
* Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment One (MCSOCOM-Det 1) (Operation Iraqi Freedom)

flagicon|South Vietnam Vietnam

* Vietnamese Rangers
* LLDB
* Vietnamese Special Mission Service

ee Also

* List of special forces units
* Paratrooper forces around the world
* Marine forces around the world
* Special Police forces from around the world

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