Special Forces Warriors

The Four Special Operations Forces Truths

1. Humans are more important than hardware.
2. Quality is more important than quantity.
3. Special op Forces cannot be massed produced.
4. Competent Sp Op Forces cannot be created after an emergency occurs.

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In November 2001, US Army Special Forces and the British SAS located Osama bin Laden’s hiding place in the mountains of Afghanistan, in a place called Tora Bora. By this time, US conventional generals had arrived, and were now in control of operations. They made many mistakes in the stereotypical tactics they used, while ignoring American and British Special Forces. The US conventional generals actually trusted some Afghan units that were friends of al-Qaeda. During the operation, those backstabbing Muslims assisted Osama bin Laden and his escape into Pakistan.

After the victories of the Special Forces in Afghanistan, the conventional US Army and Marines arrived. With them, they brought their narrow-minded incompetent generals and their stereotypical approach to war. In addition to a battalion or so of Marines, there were a few battalions of the US 10th Mountain Division (which has never received any training on how to fight in mountains), a few battalions of the 101st Air Mobile Division, and a few of the less formidable Delta Force.

In March 2002, it was rumored that Osama bin Laden was back in the Afghan mountains. Elements of conventional US Army forces along with token contingents from a variety of foreign armies (Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, and Norway) launched Operation Anaconda. It was then that the war began to turn against America and its anti-terror coalition. The conventional generals insisted on doing things their way. Their way was neither clever, nor efficient. Thus, one more attempt to capture Osama bin Laden failed because the Special Forces wasn’t running things.

More information about these events is in Secrets of the SAS.

A Story the Media Overlooked

Right after 9-11, President George Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld met with top military generals. They demanded revenge for the massacre of 3,000 American citizens, and Osama bin Laden’s head on a stake. All the armed forces said they weren’t ready, and couldn’t be ready for months.

Then the Green Berets stepped forward. They said, “Sir, we are ready to send 100 men into Afghanistan immediately”, and (we) will wipe out the 60,000 Muslim fanatics located there, including the Taliban, al Quaeda, and Arab psychopaths. At first, the conventional US generals began to quibble. They were overruled by Bush and Rumsfeld.

In Oct 2001, Task Force Dagger began to deploy to Afghanistan in 9 groups. They were going there to use the Northern Alliance Muslims against the Arabs, al Qaeda and Taliban Muslims.

Less than two months later those 100 Special Forces heroes were standing on the corpses of over 40,000 Muslim terrorists, and they seized every city in Afghanistan.

Their feat of arms was greater than any armed force in history, including the elite hard-fighting soldiers of the German Army in World War 2, and even the sacred bands of Alexander the Great.

The heroes of the Special Forces came to bring justice and revenge to the Muslim enemy. Task Force Dagger unleashed hell onto the Taliban and al Qaeda just 5 weeks after 9-11. They were hunting Osama bin Laden, and several times almost got his head, but conventional generals interfered and prevented it.
They weren’t there to hand out the millions of dollars the CIA usually gave out when they were trying to win the support of foreigners; they brought iron professionalism. Before they left Afghanistan, Task Force Dagger, along with members of the New York police and fire department, buried pieces of the World Trade Center in the perverse Afghani soil. Surrounding them on every far horizon was smoke rising from hundreds of burning fires of Muslim terrorist camps, cities and fortified positions. In the meantime, the US media virtually ignored what the Special Forces had done in Afghanistan.

There are many titles on QuikManeuvers.com that deal with aspects of Anti-Terrorism. There will be some books on this particular subject available soon at QuikManeuvers.com .

Which American Special Operations Troops Are Effective

American Special Operations troops are not all equal, effective or even elite. Some units are not even Special Operations troops, but are commandos used for special missions.

Below is listed several categories of American combat troops, and in each category the troops will be rated with the most effective force listed in order. For example, the first listed is the best in that category.

Following are the categories of American Special Operations troops that frequently confuse people.

I. Conventional Forces –

(1) Rangers: US Army Rangers are composed of very young, reliable personnel, who can be depended upon to fight long and hard as commandos. Whether in the desant (fighting behind enemy lines) role, or in more direct combat role, US Army Rangers are America’s only conventional elite.

(2) The second most effective conventional force is US Army Paratroops. They are not very well trained, which is a huge deficit, and they are poorly organized. However, American paratroop units can be depended upon to fight longer and harder than most other conventional units.

(3) US Army Airmobile Units: These units are not well-trained, and they are not as reliable as Airborne (Paratroops) Units.

(4) US Army conventional units, including infantry, armor, and artillery. These conventional ground forces are the least effective in the US Army. They are led by many incompetent conventional minded generals, and are poorly trained. For example, the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division is not given even one day’s training in mountain warfare.

(5) The least effective American ground force is the USMC. Although tens of thousands of fine men serve in the Marine Corps, their officers are far below the competence of US Army Infantry and Tank Officers.

II. Special Operations Forces –

(1) US Army Special Forces are the best special troops and all-around warriors that the US Armed Forces deploys. Special Forces troops are older and more experienced. They are patriotic, reliable, and possess the requisite qualities it takes to be a true elite.

(2) US Army Delta Force is composed of mainly young, inexperienced personnel, who are trained too much in hostage rescue. They are not as effective as they should be in operational and strategic reconnaissance as well as direct action. Modeled after the British Army’s SAS, Delta Force has failed to measure up as it should. That failure can essentially be blamed on poor training and leadership.

(3) US Navy SEALs are the least effective of America’s Special Operations Forces. They are trained to be amphibious athletes, not elite warriors. The modern SEAL unit is nothing like the SEAL tTeam 6, led by the master anti-terrorist warrior Richard Marcinko. That team, specially hand-picked by Marcinko, had the best personnel and training possible. It was disbanded and Marcinko imprisoned because the conventional Navy is jealous of and despises special warfare elites far more than does US Army conventional generals,.
Modern SEALS are frequently sent on missions that they are not qualified for. They are sent far inland, where they are expected to carry out operational and strategic reconnaissance and direct action missions, for which they are neither trained nor motivated.
Although the SEALs, like the USMC, are supported by a very active public relations department, they constantly fall short of the mark in Special Warfare. It all begins in their initial BUDs training. They reach a high state of athleticism and those that are athletic enough go one to receive a smattering of special warfare training. Such men are frequently surprised when they are murdered by illiterate fanatics, with obsolete weapons, in some of the world’s hell-holes.

(4) The CIA’s Paramilitary Element is equal to, and sometimes better than the Navy SEALs. Their personnel are mostly drawn from experienced special operations veterans, including the SEALs. That is an advantage. The major disadvantage to the CIA’s paramilitary element, which causes it to go to the last place in the Special Operations category, is the fact that it is controlled by the CIA.

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Success of SpecOps Should Be Increased

Since the Muslim imperialists and their domestic leftist allies stabbed America in the back on 9-11, there has been a massive increase in US Military Special Operations Troops. That is a very wise thing to do, because as US Army Special Forces proved in Afghanistan in the fall and winter of 2001, a hundred US Army Special Forces troops can easily defeat a hundred thousand muslim fanatics. Yes, that’s what happened in Afghanistan.

Because of that amazing feat of arms by special operators and the fact that Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is the first competent Secretary of Defense we have had in decades, the Special Operations forces have been increasing geometrically.

Such expansion usually is felt by those special forces organizations that are the least competent. The US Navy SEALs, since they have been ethnically cleansed of Richard Marcinko and several other highly competent operators, are showing great weakness.

Special Warfare expert Richard Marcinko has explained the effect of the dramatic growth of Special Warfare on the SEALs: “…it has also meant more bureaucracy. More layers of management. More conventional thinking applied to unconventional warfare, .,,Worst of all, hordes of unqualified officers---admin pukes…intel weenies, and Academy-educated ticket punchers—are elbowing their way into Navt Specwar because of the rapid advancement potential, the increased visibility, and the larger budgets. The officers they displace are operators—the hunters who don’t give a damn about anything but getting the job done…SpecWar’s rapid growth has also led to paralysis---and worse. It has led to endemic butt-covering. Today, for example, there is such a convoluted chain of command that SpecWar units—which were designed as quick-reaction teams—cannot in fact react quickly. There are so many “May I?”’s that have to get asked, so many forms to be signed, so many rules of engagement that have to be explained, that the bad guys escape before the SEALs are wheels up.”

For an interesting description of how the left sabotaged special forces and SOG during the Vietnam War, read the books: American Vietnam War Traitors and Moles and Amateurs, available at QuikManeuvers.com

Special Ops, Violence of Action

The modern US Army Special Forces is the best in the world.

The US Navy SEALs and the US Army Delta Force are both far less competent special operations organizations than Special Forces. These differences are amazing, considering the fact that left-wing interests with insidious subversion in mind have partially co-opted part of the Army’s special forces groups into silly “peace keeping” functions that could be performed by less well-trained and valuable troops.

Do not forget, however, that the left has involved a percentage of the Army’s Special Forces in training foreign armies, baby sitting foreign tyrants, “nation building”, and military diplomacy in order to simultaneously divert highly trained special forces troops into dead-end time wasters and sap America’s elite by bleeding it of its war fighting psychology by turning it into peace-keeping, butt-licking sheep. Doom to the fool who thinks there is anything defensive about Special Ops.

Other serious incursions by the left into America’s armed forces, with the same goals of nullifying the force, includes the idiotic imposition of exaggerated rules of engagement and embedded journalists who act as politically correct commissars spying on military commanders and conspiring to penalize them for any effective war-like tendencies.

This blog subscribes to the same special operations principles and outlook as the British Special Air Services (SAS), Richard Marcinko (former SEAL leader and best-selling author), and the US Army Special Forces Troops describes by Robin Moore in his best-selling book “The Hunt for Bin Laden”.

We are guided by those principles as our framework for understanding as we investigate and report on salient Special Forces activities of British and American Special Operations Forces from 1940 to present times.

We emphasize the human being and his brain as the most dangerous weapon on the battlefield. We have no real respect for high-tech weaponry and computerized micro-managed systems, or even screaming trainers who think that loud “hoo-hah” bellowing can substitute for lethal effectiveness. If any new invention is soldier friendly, and operable after being dug out from 3 feet of mud, and helps increase the tempo of effective violence of action, then we are for it! If it does not meet such tests, then we advocate its quick demise.

If you want to have some fun, join us in this explosive adventure. The explosions you hear will leave a taste of cordite in your soft palate, but your ears won’t be insulted by some screaming Neanderthal.