The Allies constantly lost strategic pieces of real estate and frittered away elite forces trying to gain useless, oft-untakable objectives.
The New York veteran who started the nation's first Veteran of Foreign Wars post for women welcomes them in elite forces.
Up to 2, 000 police, including elite forces supported by soldiers from the Brazilian navy, took part in the operation backed by armoured vehicles and helicopters.
Having been deployed in the Gulf and Falkland's War, as well as the Balkans, elite forces such as the SAS are considered ideal for intelligence-gathering operations within Afghanistan.
Then, as now, elite special forces were sent in to locate the whereabouts of those responsible.
Only seven months earlier, the U.S. sneaked elite special forces into the country to kill Osama bin Laden.
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He served in and led our most elite special forces units for decades, including in many of our most dangerous recent combat operations.
Castro is training elite special forces units in Vietnam, who are prepared to attack U.S. military targets during a final confrontation, according to Janes Defense Weekly.
The determined manner in which elite security forces quickly overwhelmed the attackers was a display of the resolution with which the authorities are prepared to act against this terrible scourge...
"As this new rule is implemented, it is critical that we maintain the same high standards that have made the American military the most feared and admired fighting force in the world -- particularly the rigorous physical standards for our elite special forces units, " McCain said in a statement.
The U.S. military is investigating six members of its elite Army Special Forces, or Green Berets, officials said.
It is also spending millions training elite squadrons of special forces to catch terrorists.
On Saturday, Syria buried 22 members of the armed forces, including six elite pilots ambushed on a highway near Homs, following a recent upsurge of armed attacks on security forces.
The defense secretary earlier flew in to the southern city of Basra, amid tight security from neighboring Kuwait on a special forces aircraft with elite, black-clad special operations soldiers acting as bodyguards.
As the world looks on to the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of elite U.S. military forces, traders and investors are trying to assess how markets will react to the news.
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And it has powerful friends, among the political and economic elite as well as in the armed forces, who will oppose any attempt to dismantle the paramilitary right.
The folks who work with Blackwater are well-trained and well-screened, and many are military veterans, often from elite units such as the Army Special Forces and the Navy Seals.
All elite groups (apart from the armed forces, for which no data were available) were less likely than they were in 1993 to say that America should be the most assertive of leading nations.
But the day in January that it began hearings, an outspoken newspaper, the Indian Express, claimed that he sent two elite army units paratrooper special forces and mechanised infantry on pre-dawn exercises on the approaches to Delhi.
It was at that point that I thought, perhaps, her death might actually prove to be some sort of watershed, that it would galvanise the country's democratic forces, jolt the political elite out of its indolence, and put Russia back on the reformist path it once set out on so energetically.
But given the antipathy that Venezuela's elite, and some members of the armed forces, feel toward him, it is not simply absurd.
On Sunday, US forces said to be from the elite Navy Seal Team Six undertook the operation in Abbottabad, 100km (62 miles) north-east of Islamabad.
Victory so far has been won by a fairly small number of elite troops, such as paratroopers and other special forces, who are willing to fight at close quarters.
The agency accused the group of training Syrian government personnel inside Syria, and facilitating the training of Syrian forces by the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Despite the change in Pentagon policy, it still remains to be seen how receptive the military will be to placing women in combat roles, especially elite units like Rangers, SEALs and Army Special Forces.
The Revolutionary Guards are an elite unit of the Iranian military which operate their own naval forces.
Players from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will all be eligible to play for the Team GB sevens team and Rob Andrew, the Rugby Football Union's elite rugby director, said England were looking forward to joining forces with the Celtic nations.
Indeed, Gadhafi may have enough forces on the ground, a mix of paramilitary and elite army, to prevail, or at least to maintain control of the west and significant oil production.
The United States sends its most elite operatives (SOCOM) into Afghanistan way before it sends in conventional forces.
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This could lead to a prolonged clash with Mr Rafsanjani, who retains powerful support within the clerical establishment, leading some to describe the schism within the establishment as a struggle between the newer, more radical leadership of the security forces, backed by Mr Khamenei, and the old revolutionary elite, whose fervour has waned in favour of pragmatism.
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