• 601 and 602 Commando Company
• Marine Brigade
• "Buzo Tactico"
• Halcon 8 (Falcon 8) of the Argentinean Army (GSG9 type

• Jagdcommando (Rangers)
• Gebirgsjagerbattalions (Mountain Warfare)
• Gendermerie Einsatz Kommando (GEK) (COBRA) (GSG9 type)

• Special Air Service Regiment (SASR)
• *A, B, C Squadron
• *HQ SquadronLRRP type
• *Norton Regiment
• *Pilbara Regiment
• *Far North Queensland Regiment
• Navy Clearance DiversI
• Civil Affairs UNIT (Psy-Ops type)
• Australian protective Service (APS) (VIP Protection)
• Australian Federal Police (AFP) CT/HRT

• U-Group

• 1st Special Reconaissance Company
• Regiment Para-Commando (3 battalions plus an artillery battery
• Escadron Special d'Intervention of the Gendarme Royal (ESI)
• ESR (Equioes Spécialisées de Reconnaissance -Specialised ReconnaissanceTeams)
• "Régiment Para-Commando", with three battalions (1 Para, 2 Cdo , 3 Para).
• 1st Special Reconaissance Company

NOTE: There are also small air force commando units attached to every air base.

• Special Forces Training Centre
• Ecological Police - Sounds odd, but they are viewed by some as an adjunct to Bolivia's special operations units.

• "Black Swans" - Overview of the elite Bosnian Muslim army unit

• 1º Batalhão de Forças Especiais (1st Special Forces Batt)
• Grupo de Mergulhadores de Combate-GRUMEC (Combat Divers Group)
• Comandos Anfíbios-COMANFI (Amphibious Commandos)
• Comandos de Reconhecimento Terrestre-RECONTER (Land Recon Commandos)
• Grupos de Operações Especiais (Spec Op Groups)
• PARASAR (Parajumpers)
• Jungle Brigades, Brazilian Army
• "12a Brigada de Infantaria Leve (Aeromovel)" or Light Infantry
• (airmobile) brigade.

• Mountain Warfare Unit

• Special Service Force
• *Canadian Airborne Regiment (1/2/3 Airborne Commando) disbanded 1995 - reconstructed as follows:
• - I Airborne Commando; Royal Canadian Regiment
• - 2 Airborne Commando; Princes Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
• - 3 Airborne Commando; Royal Vingt-Deauxieme regiment
• *Airborne Service Commando
• Emergency Response Teams, RCMP

• Escuela de Paracaidistas y Fuerzas Especiales ( School of S.F. of the Chilean Army)
• Yungay (Mountain Infatry Unit) No 3
• Talca (Mountain Infatry Unit) No 16
• Los Angeles (Mountain Infatry Unit) No 17
• Guardia Vieja (Mountain Infatry Unit) No 18
• Buzos Tacticos del Ejercito (Army SF commandoes)
• Buzos Tacticos de la Armada (Navy SF commandoes

• 6th Special Warfare Group
• 8th Special Warfare Group
• 12th Special Warfare SF Detachment

• Escuela de Paracaidistas y Fuerzas Especiales ( School of S.F. of the Chilean Army)
• Yungay (Mountain Infatry Unit) No 3
• Talca (Mountain Infatry Unit) No 16
• Los Angeles (Mountain Infatry Unit) No 17
• Guardia Vieja (Mountain Infatry Unit) No 18
• Buzos Tacticos del Ejercito (Army SF commandoes)
• Buzos Tacticos de la Armada (Navy SF commandoes)

• Naval Infantry
• 103th 104th 105th Airborne Guards Divisions(VDV)
• Independent Battalions
• Independent Assault Brigades
• Alfa Brigade (FSB-anti-terrorism)
• Delta Brigade (" " ")
• OMON ("Black Berets")
• MVD (Interior Ministry Troops)
• Kondor Division of MVD (Anti-Terrorist)
• Spetznaz (SPETSialnoje NAZnachenie)
  • `Razvedchiki': 1 batt/division divided into 2 Coys (one for LRRP, one for Airborne operations)
  • `Rejdoviki': brigade sized: operate in batt. & coy sized units in an independent recon role
  • `Vysotniki': brigade sized: operate in 11man units and are the closest to US SF/UK SAS
• "Assault-Landing Motorized-Maneuver Groups"
• 15th Independent Brigade of Special Designation (Spetznaz) GRU Spetznaz

• Jaegerkorpset. (LRRP'S)
• There are two LRRP companies. They are:
• PTRKMP/ELK: PatrolCoy Land Zealand (Homeguard=TA or NG) and
• PTRKMP/DDIV: PatrolCoy Danish Division (conscripts)
• Froemanskorpset (Frogman corps)
• Saerlige Efterretning Patruljer (SEP) (Spec. Intel.Patrols)
• Sirius Patruljen (Sirius patrol)
• Patruljekompaniet Ved Jydske Division
• Politiets Efterretningstejeneste (PE) of the State Police Intelligence Service
• Patruljekompagniet ved Østre Landkommando (PTRKMP/ELK) (Patrolcoy Land Zealand (PTRCOY/LZ))

• 6th Regular Battalion (LRRPS)
• 6x Special Forces Companies

• Puma Unit (Army SF)

• "Ninjas" - Some claim these indiviuals are current or former members of the Army's special operations unit.
• FANTIL - Pro-independence fighters 

• ARMY - Unit 777/`Sa'aga/`Thunderbolt Force'
• NAVY - UDT/SEAL-type unit (designation unknown)

• 1er Regiment Parachutiste d'Infanterie de Marine (1er RPI Ma)
• (Para-Commandoes - nearest French equivalent to SAS/SF etc)
• Groupement de Commandos Parachutistes
• Force d'Action Rapide:
  • * 4eme Division Aermobile (4th Airmobile Division)
  • * 6eme Division Legere Blindee (6th Light Armoured Division)
  • * 9eme Division D'Infantrie Marine (9th Marine Light Infantry Division)
  • * 27eme Division Alpine (27th Alpine Division)
• Foreign Legion / Legion Etrangere:
  • * 1er Regiment Etranger
  • * 2er Regiment
  • * 3e Regiment D'Infanterie
  • * 4e Regiment Etranger
  • * 1er Regiment Etranger De Cavalerie (1e REC)
  • * 2er Regiment Etranger de Parachutiste (2er REP) [NB: Also a part of 11eme Division Parachutiste (11th ParachuteDivision)]
  • * 5e Regiment Mixte du Pacifique
  • * Detachment Legion Etranger de Mayotte
  • * 13 Demi-Brigade Legion Etrangere
  • * 13 Regiment Dragoons de Parachutiste (LRRPS)
  • * Detachment Legion Etranger de Mayotte
  • * 13 Demi-Brigade Legion Etrangere
  • * 5e Régiment Etranger d'Infantrie (based on Mururoa)

• Fallschirmjaeger (Parachutists)
• Fernspaeh Kompanies (SAS-type/LRRPS)
• Kampfschwimmerkommando (German SEALs)
• Kampfschimmerkompanie (KSK or Combat Diver Company)
• Gebirgsjaeger (Mountain Warfare troops)
• GSG-9

• Laskuvarjojaakarikoulu (Airborne Ranger school)
• Ranger / Commando
• Ranger / Commando Recon Line
• Airborne Rangers
• Airborne Ranger Paratrooper Guild
• Sissikomppaniat (Ranger/Guerilla warfare companies
• Nylands Brigade (soon to be renamed Coastal Brigade)
• Frontier Guard
• Frontier Guard (includes four Special Operations/Guerrilla companies)
• Naval Special Operations
• Laivaston Erikoistoimintayksikko (Navy Special operation unit)
• 1.Rannikkojaakarikomppania (1st Marine commando company)
• Sissikomppaniat (Ranger/Guerilla warfare companies)

• Alpine Raiding Coy
• Marine Brigade
• 2nd Parahute Regiment
• 1st Commando Regiment
• Amphibious Commando Regiment
• Dimoria Eidikon Apostolon [DEA Special Mission Platoon] of the Athens City Police [counterterrorist]
• MYK
• Hellenic Special Forces

• Guatemalan Special Forces
• Kaibiles

• Army SF Commandoes
• Commando de Operaciones (COE) of the Honduras Army SF Commandoes [counterterrorist]
• Honduran Airborne Forces  

• Special Frontier Force
• Special Services Group of the Special Frontier Force
• Marine Commando Force 

• Marines
• Special Warfare Command
• Satgas Atbhara (Counter-Terrorist Task Force) of the Indonesian Air Force)
• Detachment 81 of the Army Special Forces [Counter-terrorism]
• Kesatuan Gurita of the Indonesian Navy [SEAL-type]
• Taifib (Amphibious recon)
• Kopassus (Special Forces)

• 23rd Special Forces Brigade 

• Republican Guard
• Special Forces Brigade (`Green Berets')
• Special Republican Guard 

note: 2003 - after the war uncertain what SF/SOF units will emerge

• Sayaret Almond (LRRP's)
• Sayaret Mat'kal [attached to General Staff] (SAS-type)
• Sayaret Shakad [Incorporated into Sayeret Golani]
• Each branch of the IDF also has/had it's own Sayeret units (eg)
• Sayeret Giva'ati
• Sayerot Ha'Druzim
• Sayerot Ha'Beduim
• Sayeret Sherion (attached to Armor)
• Sayeret Golani (was attached to the old Golani brigade),
• Sayeret T'zanhanim (attached to the Parachute Brigades) etc.
• Mista'avarim (recently disbanded)
• Naval Commandoes (Shayet 13)
• Ya'Ma'M 

• `Folgore' Airborne Brigade
• Brigata Alpini Tourinese }
• Brigata Alpini Orobica }
• Brigata Alpini Tridenta } Alpine Brigades
• Brigata Alpini Cadore }
• Brigata Alpini Julia }
• Comsubin
• Incursori [SEAL-type]
• Carabinieri Parachute Battalions 

• Jandarma Komando
• NAVY - SAT (combat swimmers,similar to SEALs but only attack role and some unique characteristics.)
• SAS (combat swimmers with primary -not only- demo mission)
• Amphibious Marine Infantry (highly trained light infantry.)  

• Special Forces
• Special Security Groups
• 101st Special Forces Batallion 

• General Service Unit (GSU) of the Kenya Police
• Recce Company, General Support Unit (GSU) Kenya Police

NOTE: The GSU (General Support Unit) is not really an elite force. The 'elite' element is the Recce Company of the GSU, which is of 400-500 man strength (a rather large company). They have the immediate reaction mission, CT, quick reaction (civil disturbance) etc. GSU is a paramilitary police force, not Army. 

• They did have a 'Special Forces' prior to 1990, but it was really a CT unit, not SF as we know it. And within the 500+ force was a CT element, a riot control unit and a VIP protection unit.  

• 22x Commando Brigades 

• 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Special Forces (Airborne) Brigade/s
• 707th Special Mission Battalion [Delta Force-type]
• ROK Marine Corps
• Conterterrorist Special Attack Unit of the National Police
• Korean National Police 868 Group

• 21st Commando Regiment
• 22nd Commando Regiment
• 11th Special Forces Regiment (GGK--Grup Gerak Khas)
• Paskal (Pasukan Khas Laut - Naval Special Forces)

• Zorros
• Grupo Antiterrorista (GAT)
• Grupo Aerostransportado Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE) (Airborne Group of the Special Forces)
• First Army Corps Special Operations Unit

• Para-Commando Bde, 5th Batallion

• 7th (NL) Special Boat Squadron (Korps Mariniers)
• KCT (Korps Commando Troepen)
• BBE (Byzondere Bijstands Eenheid) (Korps Mariniers) (GSG9 type)
• BSB (Brigade Speciale Beveiligingsopdrachten

•  1 New Zealand SAS

• Marinejegertroppen FKN (Naval Commando Troop) (N.Norway)
• Marinejegerlaget FKS (Naval Commando Team) (S. Norway) (reserve-unit)
• Fallskjermjegerkommandoen (Parachute Ranger Commandoes)
• FSK (Forsvarets Spesial Kommando) (Special Commando of the Defence) (Anti-terror unit)
• Beredskaptrop of the National Police (`Delta')[Counterterrorist]
• Heimevernets Spesialstyrke (Special Force of the Home Guard)
• Marinejegertroppen FKN (Naval Commando Troop) (N.Norway)
• Marine Jegerne "MarineHunters" (Norway Naval SpecOps)
• Marinejegerlaget FKS (Naval Commando Team) (S. Norway) (reserve unit)
• Fallskjermjegerkommandoen (Parachute Ranger Commandoes)

• Sultan's Special Force 

• Special Services Group
• Rangers 

• Fuerza de Operaciones Especiales
• 6x Special Commmando Companies
• Peru's Navy (with reference to the "fuerza de infanteria de marina" and the "fuerza de operaciones especiales").  

• Army Special Warfare Brigade
• Special Operations and Group of the Army Special Warfare Brigade
• AVESCOM (Aviation Security Commando)
• Light Reaction Force of the Philipines Constabulary
• Integrated National Police Field Force 

• 6 Brygada Desantowo-Szturmowa im. Gen.Sosabowskiego
• 1 Pulk Komandosow Specalnego Przeznaczenia (1 PKSZ)
• 7th Lujcyka Naval Assault Division
• 4101st Paratroop Battalion (LRRPS'S) 

• Marine Commandoes (Fuzileiros Navais)
• Army Commandoes (Comandos)
• Airborne Commandoes (paraquedistas/Tropas aerotransportadas)
• GOE (Grupo de Operacoes Especiais)
• Portuguese Green Berets

• 1x Naval Battalion
• 2x Mountain Infantry Brigades 

• Special Forces
• Special Security Force 

• 1 Commando Bn (Airborne)
• 10 Commando Bn (Airborne, Reserve)
• Naval Divers
• Special Operations Force of the Singapore Armed Forces
• Underwater Operations Platoon (similar to US Navy SEALs)
• Land Operations Platoon (US SF and Ranger trained)
• SAF Rangers (closely modeled to US Rangers) 

• 1,2,4,5 RECCE, Recconaissance Commandoes (SAS type)
• 1, 2(CF), 3(CF) PARA, The Parachute Battalion
• SAN Combat Divers (SEAL-type; although 4 RECCE has similar role)
• SAPS Special Task Force [GSG-9 type]
• South African Police Special Task Force (CT missions only)
• Pathfinders
• Reconnaissance Regiments

• Spanish Army:
  • * Spanish Legion
    • - 1 and 2 Tercio: Ceuta and Mellila
    • - 3 Tercio ] Combine to form basis of RDF
    • - 4 Tercio ] unit in Spanish Armed Forces with BOEL (infra)
  • * BOEL (Bandera de Operaciones Especiales de la Legion)
  • * BRILEG (Brigada Legionaria)
    • -5th Banderas
    • -6th Banderas
    • -10th Banderas
  • * GOE II (Grupo Operaciones Especiales).
  • * GOE III & IV: (Non-Regular SF: like 21 SAS etc)
• Spanish Air Force:
  • * Escuadrilla de Zapadores Paracaidistas (EZAPAC)
• (LRRPS, FAC,CT, CSAR etc)
  • * Escuadrilla de Ayuda al Despliegue Aereo (EADA)
• Spanish Navy:
  • * Unidad Especial de Buceadores de Combate (UEBC) (SEALs)
  • * Unidad de Operaciones especiales (UOE) (Spanish Marines SF)
• Guardia Civil:
  • * GEOS (Grupos Especiales de Operaciones) (GSG-9)
  • * UEI (Unidad Especial de Intervencion) of the Civil Guard is the primary anti-terrorist unit.
  • * GAR (Grupos Antiterroristas Rurales) - Operate primarily in Northern Spain  

• Fallskaermjaegere (Parachute Ranger Coy)
• Kurstjaegerskolan Attack Divers (Coastal Ranger Coy)
• SAFR (Swedish Air Force Rangers)
• Rangers (LRRP's)
• I22/Lappland Jaeger Regiment
• K4/Norrland Dragoons
• National Rescue Unit (part of the Stockholm Police Dept) [counterterrorism] 

• Para-Grenadiers
• Stern Unit (based in Berne) ] (GSG-9 type)
• Enzian Unit (based in Zurich) ]
• Fallschirmaufklärerkompanie 17 (FSK 17)

• Long Range Amphibious Reconnaissance Comnandoes
• Para-Frogmen 

• Royal Thai Army 1st Special Forces (Airborne) Division:
  • * 1,2,3,4 Special Forces (Airborne) Group
  • * PsyOps Battalion
  • * LRRP Company
• Royal Thai Navy SEALS
• Special Unit of the Royal Thai Air Force [designation ?] 

• Special Warfare Department
• Ozel Inithar Kommando Bolvya [counterterrorists- are colloquially
• dubbed the `Jandara Suicide Commando Companies'!]
• ARMY
• Special Forces (100-150 troops called "special battalion" is SF's more
• select group. The rest called "Red Berets"have certain SF skills
• Commando Brigades (para-commando troops ) 

• Special Forces Brigade:
  • 21(TA)(Artists Rifles) Special Air Service (SAS)
    63(TA)(SAS) Signals Squadron
    22 Special Air Service:
    • - Sabre Squadrons (A, B, D, G, R Squadrons)
    • - Royal Logistics Corps
    • - Army Air Corps `S' Flight
    • - 264 (SAS) Signals Squadron
    • - Operations Research Wing
    • - Operations Planning and Intelligence Wing (`The Kremlin')
    • - Demolitions Wing
    • - Training Wing
    • - Counter-Revolutionary Warfare Wing
  • 23(VR) Special Air Service
  • Special Boat Squadron, Royal Marines (SBS)
  • Special Forces Flight (No 47 and No 70 Squadrons, RAF)
• 148(Meiktila) Commando, Foward Observation Battery, Royal Artillery (Para and Commando-trained FAC's)
• The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), Foward Observation Battery, Royal Artillery (T.A. equivalent of 148 Battery)
• 14 Intelligence Company, INTELLIGENCE CORPS
• 3rd Commando Brigade:
  • * Brigade HQ and Signals Squadron, RM
  • * 539 Assault Squadron, RM
  • * Tactical Air Control Parties, RAF
  • * Air Defence Troop, Royal Artillery
  • * 40, 42, 45 Commando RM [Royal Marines per se]
  • * Commando Logistic Regiment
  • * Commando Air Squadron
  • * 29 Commnado Regiment, Royal Artillery
  • * 59 Commando Squadron, Royal Engineers
  • * 845, 846 Naval Air Squadrons, Royal Navy
  • * Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre (M&AWC)
  • * Special Boat Squadron (SBS)
• 5th Airborne Brigade:
  • * Brigade HQ and Signals Squadron
  • * 89 Intelligence Section Intelligence Corps
  • * Air Force Liason Section, RAF
  • * 1x Infantry Bn
  • * 2x PARA Battalions from The Parachute Regiment
  • * 1x Gurkha Battalion
  • * Pathfinder Platoon
  • * 1x Armed Recce Regt from Household Cavaltry Regt
  • * 658 Aviation Squadron, Army Air Corps
  • * 613, 614 Tactical Air Control Parties, RAF
  • * 10(Para) Field Workshop, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
  • * 23(Para) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
  • * 160 Company, Royal Military Police
• Brigade of Gurkhas
  • * 1st bn, The Royal Gurkha Rifles
  • * 2nd bn, The Royal Gurkha Rifles
  • * Gurkha Signal bn
  • * Gurkha Engineer bn
  • * The Queen's Gurkha Engineers
  • * Queen's Gurkha Signals
  • * Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment
• D-11 of the London Metropolitan Police [GSG-9 type] 

There is a new Special Forces unit (name unknown)

"Commandos" (of the Emirate of Dubai)

• There is a new Special Forces unit (name unknown)
• "Commandos" (of the Emirate of Dubai)

• US Army Special Forces (GREEN BERETS):
  • * 1,3,5,7,10 Special Forces Group (Airborne) ]
  • * 3/7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) ] Regular
  • * 1/10th Special Forces Group(Airborne) ] Army
  • * 19, 20 Special Forces Group(Airborne) ]National Guard
• US Army Delta Force (SF Operational Detachment Delta)
• US Army Rangers:
  • * 1/75th Infantry, 2/75th Infantry, 3/75th Infantry,
• US Army Long Range Surveillance Units (LRRPS):
  • * 82 Abn Div LRSD
  • * F Co 425th (LRS) Michigan National Guard
  • * G Co 143rd Infantry (LRS) Texas National Guard
  • * 143rd Infantry Detachment (LRS)
  • * 18th Abn Corps LRS Co
• US Joint Services Special Operations Command [JSSOCOM]:
  • * 1,3,7,10 Special Forces Group (Airborne) [Green Berets]
  • * 4th PsyOps Group
  • * 1,2,3/75th Infantry [Rangers]
  • * 96th Civil Affairs Battalion
  • * 160TH SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment)
    • -2x Battallions at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky
    • -1x Battallion at Hunter Army Airfield
    • -617th Special Operations Aviation Detachment) (Panama Canal Zone)
    • -1/245th Aviation Battalion (Nat Grd, Oklahoma)
  • * NAVSPECWARDEVGRU [SEALS]
• US Marines Corps:
  • * 1st-4th ANGLICO (Air-Naval Gunfire Liason Company)
  • * 1st-4th Marine Battalion Recon (LRRPS)
  • * 1st-4th Marine Force Recon (SBS/SEAL type)
  • * Search and Target Acquisistion Platoon (one per Regt in USMC) [Snipers]
  • * Radio Reconnaissance Platoon (one for the Pac fleet, and one for the Atlantic fleet)
  • U.S. Air Force
• * Tactical Air Control Parties
• * 23rd Air Force, USAF
• US Naval Special Warfare Groups:
  • * NAVSPECWARGRU ONE
    • - SEAL Team 1,3,5
    • - SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Team One
    • - Naval Special Warfare Unit One
    • (NAVSPECWARUNIT-ONE) based in Guam, and a Detachment in Kodiak, AK (NAVSPECWARGRU-ONE DET KODIAK)
  • * NAVSPECBOATRON ONE (Coronado, CA)
    • - Special Boat Squadron One [SPECBOATUNIT 11 (Reserve) 12]
  • * NAVSPECWARGRU TWO
    • - SEAL Team 2,4,8
    • [Naval Special Warfare Units (NAVSPECWARUNIT) 2, 4, and 8, located in Scotland, Puerto Rico, and Panama, respectively
    • - SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Team Two
  • * NAVSPECBOATRON TWO (Little Creek, VA)
    • - Special Boat Squadron Two [SPECBOATUNITS 20, 22, and 26] (located in New Orleans, LA, Little Creek, VA, and Panama respectively).
  • * NAVSPECWARDEVGRU (under the joint authority of U.S.Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in Tampa, FL and Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command (COMNAVSPECWARCOM) in Coronado, CA.
• Other Units with the US Marshall's Service, National Parks Board and Department of Energy [NEST - Nuclear Emergency Search Team]

• Special Intervention Brigade

• Da Cong (Special Forces

• Parachute Brigade
• ??? Zimbabwean SAS