"commando" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to an elite military unit, or to reference someone who is skilled in a specific area, or who displays an uncompromising attitude. Example sentence: The commando quickly dealt with the enemy forces and achieved an overwhelming victory.
JOHNNY MERCER, 38 TORY, PLYMOUTH MOOR VIEW A former army commando and veteran of three tours of Afghanistan, Mercer has accused Labour governments of stifling ambition.
The first one takes place in Dodd Wood on 25 January and has a 500m ascent and a Burns Night theme (there are prizes for Caledonian-inspired fancy dress though you might want to weigh up your chances of stumbling onto thorns before going commando in a kilt).
But at least John Major had the decency not to hit out at Neil Kinnock in person (more than one adviser is said to have cautioned against it, warning that Paddy Ashdown might respond to an outbreak of violence by deploying his Marine commando skills, silencing his fellow leaders with a single deadly blow).
And after one highly publicised commando raid in Kandahar, which lasted a few hours, there has been no repeat, at least as far as is known.
This would either encourage a mass of defections from Taliban ranks, or clear the way for a series of commando raids that would, eventually, bring about the same result, in addition to finding and cornering Mr bin Laden and his cohorts.Neither now seems likely to happen soon.
But, true to his commando training, the general has, in the jargon of Western diplomats, "retaken the initiative".
This reflux is a worry for security services in France (home of the European Union's largest Muslim population) and across the continent, precisely because, newly expert and inflamed, the returnees can perpetrate commando-style attacks like that on Charlie Hebdo.
Among 40 killed in a commando-style attack on a crowded mosque in Rawalpindi last month was the only son of Lieutenant-General Masood Aslam, commander of Pakistan's north-western campaign.Bowling along the frontier, over castellated ridges, boulder-strewn plains and rounded limestone hills, there was much evidence of recent explosions.
Yet recent weeks have seen an armoured van carrying cash robbed by armed youths, and a series of commando-like raids on private restaurants.
IN THEIR menacing black helmets and commando-style boots, the Moscow bailiffs look like an occupation force spreading fear and destruction along the banks of the Moskva river.
If not, his soldiers will storm the compound and begin "stage two".Within the Israeli cabinet, there are powerful voices urging a commando-style assault on the compound in Ramallah, in an effort to apprehend the wanted men and thus bring the stand-off to an end without any loss of face for Israel.
