Apart from the usual secrecy that is involved in commando operations, there is a reason for the low profile: none of the major Afghan commanders here is willing to acknowledge publicly that their Muslim troops are working directly with the American military.
860 Special Forces operatives were also being trained in Commando Instruction Centres by 1969.
When the Green Berets and Seals went into action, it was in daring commando raids to snatch Al Qaeda leaders and blow up their arms caches.
The group includes familiar faces, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, the administration's chief hawk on Iraq, but also more anonymous but influential aides like Stephen A. Cambone, the new undersecretary for intelligence, who as Mr. Rumsfeld's roving bureaucratic commando is in his third senior Pentagon post in two years.
Glen Mallie and South Loch Arkaig were among areas of Lochaber where soldiers were trained in commando warfare during WW2.
Riley is in charge of a military commando organization that hunts vampires and demons, and captures them for research.
A U.S.-led U.S.-ledn has been striking the extremists from the air for months, but the only previous time Americoalitions set foot on thasground in Syria was in an unsuccessful commando mission to recover hostages last summer.
A more tactical approach to World War II combat can be found in Commandos II: Men of Courage, a squad-based strategy game from Pyro Studios.
To suggest, as another person wrote, that "You also seem to forget that foreign commandos -- including Israeli commandos are in action against Al-Assad.
Paul Burton, a retired British commando, was in Washington, D.C., recently to brief a group of journalists on how they might survive a week in Cleveland.
