The phrase "a commando force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specialized military unit trained for rapid and stealthy operations, often in unconventional warfare.
Example: "The government deployed a commando force to carry out the high-stakes rescue mission behind enemy lines."
Alternatives: "special operations unit" or "elite tactical team".
To that end, American military officers in Kabul and at the Pentagon have been developing plans for a commando force that could carry out raids against terrorist groups.
But he did point out that he was not leading a commando force and would not seek to humiliate the Iraqis.
When Dingane's Zulus, seeking to keep the white invaders out, murdered trek leader Piet Retief and his party and counterattacked against the settlers in Natal, Pretorius raised a commando force of 500 and defeated 10,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood (Ncome) River (Dec. 16,1838), killing 3,000 with hardly any loss of his own men.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon and State Department are speeding up efforts to help the Libyan government create a commando force to combat Islamic extremists like the ones who killed the American ambassador in Libya last month and to help counter the country's fractious militias, according to internal government documents.
The ambiguity resulting from the question of a commando force operating with or without government control, and the doubt regarding the efficacy and the legitimate authority of the American government over its best band of warriors, would have opened up a political and doctrinal abyss too reckless, or too radical, for mass consumption.
Archives|350 Libyans Trained to Oust Qaddafi Are to Come to U.S. 350 Libyans Trained to Oust Qaddafi Are to Come to U.S. For two years, United States officials have been shopping around for a home for about 350 Libyan soldiers who cannot return to their country because American intelligence officials had mobilized them into a commando force to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader.
The pattern was set as early as 1953, when, as a 25-year-old leader of a special commando force, he led a reprisal raid into a Jordanian village following an attack that had killed three Israelis.
The agency also tried to train and equip a Pakistani commando force and some Uzbeks, too.
The two men had known each other for several years, and it was the prince's idea to build a foreign commando force for his country.
Inside the city they must hit the more elite Special Republican Guard, a smaller commando force of around 26,000 men loyal to President Saddam.
A1 Task Force to Hunt Terrorists The top American military commander for the Middle East has created a covert commando force to hunt Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and major terrorists.
