I enjoy the varied posts here in the General section of TL. I also appreciate the varied backgrounds that everyone brings to a discussion - there seems to be no subject that someone here isn't very knowledgeable of, which is always great for learning new things.
I was wondering lately what the most highly trained military special forces unit would be. I don't know a great deal about modern armies, I'm sure there are a tonne of unique teams I've heard nothing about so I figured I'd pose the question to TL.
What is the most elite special forces unit in the world?
In my mind I tossed around such titles as Marine Force Recon, Delta Force, SAS, Spetsnaz, IDF/Sayeret, SEALS, etc. but I'll be honest, I pretty much have no idea what they do specifically, or what would separate one from the other.
I am not really interested in having this turn into a pissing contest or anything negative where people deride another nations army. I am mostly looking for insight into what popular opinion is, and maybe learn some things I didn't know. I'm sure this will be of interest to others out there too.
EDIT: For what it's worth, I did a (brief) search and didn't find a similar topic but I'll apologize in advance if I didn't catch it and this has been done before.
EDIT 2: OK, apparently I did a search with a spelling error and there is a thread on this that is quite old (2004). Feel free to delete if it seems necessary.
Would be hard to judge I imagine just cause no one really knows the different secret technologies each one is backed up with. Like those helicopters used on the raid for Osama, I'm pretty sure they mentioned those things were one of a kind, and that people didn't even know they existed. It would be so amazing to have access to the most secret files in the FBI or CIA just to see the crazy shit that goes on...
On November 27 2011 17:34 travis wrote: I am no expert on this, but given that we are the U.S. of fuckin' A - I would have to guess Navy Sea;s/Pararescue Jumpers.
After doing some research maybe they are 2nd to the British SAS?
Also maybe there's special forces we don't know about O.O
yea,, there's def gotta be some sikk-ass-black-op shit we dun know about....if there isn't well then i lose all respect for america.
I assume that a US unit like the SEALS have the upper hand on pretty much everyone because pretty much any new technology that comes around sees its first use in this environment if it can be of use.
I don't know much about others but if I would have to say someone from a pure "bad-ass" point of view I would say the Israeli Defense Forces because they developed Krav Maga. Here's a video about it from human weapon episodes.
A good show on this is Deadliest Warrior even though their simulations are all BS, you learn alot about sick special forces. I saw a North Korean special forces, they were pretty insane other than elite.
What unit killed Osama, they must of been really trained
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