World - Spec Ops Magazine

Portuguese Special Forces: Special operations and elite units in Portugal

Portuguese military and special forces have a long history of special operations and elite units. Portugal is a relatively small … Read More

Today, almost every country has a significant number of special forces operators. In Finland, a non-NATO member, Army SOF consists … Read More

Being one of the smallest elite unit of the Philippine Navy, the Naval Special Operation Group is trained in special … Read More

They are the Portuguese Army Special Operations Forces (SOF) and are part of the Army Rapid Reaction Brigade. They operate … Read More

Since the Croatian war for independence, Croatia has developed their own special forces on both law enforcement and military level … Read More

The elite detachment of combat divers, Kommando Spezialkräfte Marine (KSM), is a special unit of commandos of the German Navy … Read More

JW Komandosow represents a specialized division within the Polish Special Operations Forces, whose origins can be traced back to 1957. … Read More

Special Boat Service (SBS) is one of those units that you are probably heard about but still don’t know much … Read More

The New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) is widely considered to be the most elite unit in the New Zealand … Read More

Alpha Group (Alfa), also known as Spetsgruppa “A” and Directorate “A,” is a special unit within FSB Special Purpose Center (TsSN … Read More

Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR) is the Canadian Armed Forces special operations force. It was created in 2006 and is … Read More

Estonia, the small country in the Baltic, has an elite Estonian Special Operations Forces known as ESTSOF or EOG. It … Read More

Even the Slovenian Armed Forces have their own special unit, called the Enota za Specialno Delovanje (ESD) which is the … Read More