Special Forces are military assets designed and trained to conduct tactical actions that if conducted by conventional units may have disproportionate negative impacts on policy. In theory, Special Forces deliver high precision and lower risk and cost than might otherwise be possible. This short piece aims to justify this description in the face of some questioning of their usefulness in the literature, serious and otherwise.
Simon Anglim lectures in military history and strategic studies at the University of Reading. He is the author of Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922-1944 and several papers on special forces and counterinsurgency.
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