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Combat arms [r]: In a land military organization, the functions of infantry, units based on armored fighting vehicles, artillery, air, artillery and missile defense, combat engineers, army cooperation aviation and special operations forces. All combat arms units engage in direct contact with enemy personnel or systems. ^[e]

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Operational Preparation of the Environment [r]: Clandestine operations of the U.S. Department of Defense that can fall into Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace or Operational Preparation of the Battlespace, but are of sufficient sensitivity that if they were conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Congressional leadership would need to be informed ^[e]

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- Guerrilla warfare [r]: A set of strategic, operational, and tactical actions, within a political context, taken against an enemy in territory dominated by that enemy, by irregular troops, often not uniformed ^[e]
Counterinsurgency [r]: Theory and practice of defeating insurgency without creating even more local resistance or strategic failures ^[e]
- Foreign Internal Defense [r]: U.S. special operations doctrine for assisting third-countries in counterinsurgency ^[e]

Counterproliferation [r]: The set of activities that detect and monitor the threat of weapons of special concern against one's own nation and one's allies. ^[e]
Counterterrorism [r]: A range of activities that prevent attempted terrorism well before an actual act is close to being executed, including killing or capturing terrorists; complements and can include anti-terrorism, or measures taken to minimize the impact of an attempted or completed act; counterterrorism proper is "enemy centric" rather than counterinsurgency, which is "people-centric" ^[e]

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Israel

Sayeret Matkal [r]: Israeli Defense Forces elite special operations unit, battlefield or urban, with direct action, hostage rescue and special reconnaissance roles ^[e]

United Kingdom

Special Air Service [r]: Special operations regular and Territorial Army regiments of the British Army, part of U.K. Special Forces ^[e]
Special Boat Service [r]: U.K. Special Forces units specializing in waterborne operations, administratively part of the Royal Marines ^[e]

United States

Joint Special Operations Command [r]: A major subordinate unit of the United States Special Operations Command, which takes on the most sensitive covert military operations, usually working unacknowledged within the geographic area of a Unified Combatant Command ^[e]
Army Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
5th Special Forces Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
75th Ranger Regiment [r]: Assigned to the Army Special Operations Command of the United States Special Operations Command, a highly skilled, parachute-qualified light infantry unit that conducts raids in uniform (e.g., seizing airfields or destroying strategic targets), and provides perimeter security during direct action by other special operators ^[e]
Advanced Force Operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
Delta Force [r]: A generally covert U.S. Army unit in Joint Special Operations Command, specializing in hostage rescue and combat search and rescue, direct action, special reconnaissance, and counterterrorism. ^[e]
United States Army Special Forces [r]: United States Army organization originally created to train and lead guerrillas, highly qualified to work with other cultures; acquired additional missions including foreign internal defense, direct action (military), special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, etc. ^[e]
United States Navy SEAL [r]: [under]sea-air-land special operations organization of the United States Navy, specializing in direct action, special reconnaissance, combat search and rescue and counterterrorism ^[e]
Air Force Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AC-130 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MH-53 Pave Low [r]: United States Air Force special operations helicopter that can fly at night, at extremely low altiude, and in most weather. Its main missions are delivering and retrieving special operations personnel; replaced by the CV-22 ^[e]

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