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  Commando - Information at Halfvalue.com
This is normally referred to as “raiding.” Commando Units have a variety of specialist capabilities which enable them to conduct these kind of operations, most notable a broad range of insertion skills which often include parachuting, airborne rappelling or fast-roping, or amphibious operations.
Additionally, communities and farmsteads provided self-equipped, mounted men whenever a commando was mustered (a form of mobilization similar to the original Texas Rangers.) In the final phase of the Second Boer War, the commandos fought a guerrilla campaign, in which 75,000 Afrikaners occupied the attention of the 450,000-strong British forces.
In Australia, the Independent Commando Companies were disbanded at the end of the War, with two Reserve units, 1 and 2 Commando Companies, being raised in 1954, and the joint regimental structure of the 1st Commando Regiment (1 CDO) being formed in the 1980s.
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  The Ultimate Commando - American History Information Guide and Reference
Commandos are generally seen as "elite" soldiers; they tend to meet relatively high physical and intellectual requirements, are formed into combat units (from squad to brigade strength), and often operate in conjunction with more traditional military formations.
Tactics common to the modern commando are the product of experience gained over the centuries, but acutely brought to the fore and developed as part of the guerilla warfare of the 20th century.
Italy's Commandos of World War I, the Arditi, were not reformed in World War II, and their most renowned Commandos became the Decima Flottiglia MAS who were responsible for the sinking and damage of considerable Allied tonnage in the Mediterranean.
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 Commando Information
During the court martial of Breaker Morant, the commando strategy of the Boer resistance — clearly a concept both new and startling to British military thought — was cited as mitigation for the summary execution by Morant and his comrades of prisoners of war.
Italy's Commandos of World War I, the Arditi, were not reformed in World War II, and their most renowned Commandos became the Decima Flottiglia MAS who, from mid-1940, were responsible for the sinking and damage of a considerable tonnage of Allied ships in the Mediterranean.
Commandos from 4RAR have recently been deployed to several theatres of war including Iraq and Afghanistan where they continue to perform their jobs successfully alongside the Special Air Service Regiment.
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 Commando information - Search.com
Canadian commando forces were disbanded and recreated at various times in the post-war years, and by 1979, there were three Units, with #3 Commando established as an airborne unit.
In Australia, Commandos were previously part of 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.
The terms "Going commando" or simply "commando" are often used in the United States to refer to wearing no underwear under the trousers.
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 Commando - Marvel Database - a Wikia wiki
Commando - Marvel Database - a Wikia wiki
It serves to clarify the difference between several closely named or closely related articles.
Wikia is a service mark of Wikia, Inc. All rights reserved.
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 Encyclopedia: Al-Aqsa Intifada
On May 7, 2001, the IDF naval commandos captured the vessel Santorini, which sailed in international waters towards Palestinian Authority-controlled Gaza.
In January 2002 the IDF Shayetet-13 naval commando captured the Karine A, a large boat carrying weapons from Iran presumably intended to be used by Palestine militants against Israel.
On May 20, 2003, Israeli naval commandos intercepted another vessel, Abu Hassan, on course to the Gaza Strip from Lebanon.
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 Encyclopedia: Albion (disambiguation)
William Warner (poet) William Warner (Missouri), United States Senator This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
Disambiguation The Libertines were a critically acclaimed British rock and roll band noted for their chaotic live outings, often seemingly ramshackle touring schedule and uniquely English take on punk rock.
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 SOAS, April   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1971 the vanguard of the revolutionary movement were the rural educated youth[4] who had gone through higher education but were nevertheless unemployed.
The similarities between the pattern of distribution of violence in the community I studied and the distribution of extreme violence resulting from techniques of community destabilisation and global counter-insurgency warfare[5] in other neo-colonial or cold-war type conflicts are however remarkable.
Most commonly, local concepts go through a process of disambiguation when translated into English and are relegated unambiguously to the domain of spirit religion, possession and spirit worship.
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 Encyclopedia: Donald Duck
Donald's name and image are also used on Donald Duck brand orange juice, introduced by Citrus World in 1940.
This class was known as Short Subjects, cartoons from 1932 until 1970, and as Short Subjects, animated films from 1971 to 1973.
Other notable shorts from this period include the so-called Army shorts, six films that follow Donald's life in the US Army from his drafting to his life at boot camp under sergeant Pete to his first actual mission as a commando having to sabotage a Japanese air base.
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 Propaganda -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Propaganda is a specific type of (What a communication that is about something is about) message presentation aimed at serving an agenda.
Though not set in the Soviet Union, their characters live under totalitarian regimes in which language is constantly corrupted for political purposes.
Leaflets were also dropped throughout Afghanistan, offering rewards for (Arab terrorist who established al-Qaeda (born in 1957)) Osama bin Laden and other individuals, portraying Americans as friends of Afghanistan and emphasizing various negative aspects of the Taliban.
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 commando | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
commando, soldier trained to make surprise attacks; group of these soldiers
command, order; commando, soldier trained to make surprise attacks; commando unit
Found in dictionary: serviceman, man, military personnel, military man, military force, military unit, force, military group
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 Encyclopedia: 2003 Iraq war
The 2003 invasion of Iraq (also called the 2nd or 3rd Persian Gulf War) began on March 20, 2003, when forces belonging primarily to the United States and the United Kingdom invaded Iraq without the explicit backing of the United Nations Security Council.
Included in these forces were groups of Australian SAS and Commando Personnel who performed Recon and combat search and rescue mission along side American and British SF units.
Polish SF units took control of an Oil Platform as part of their activity during the first 48 hours.
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 Company (military unit)
The British Army identifies its rifle companies by letter (usually, but not always, A, B and C) within an infantry battalion, usually with the addition of an headquarters company and a support/heavy weapons company.
The Royal Marines also has companies designated by letter within a commando.
This page was last modified 00:51, 12 May 2005.
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 Game
Cabal (arcade game) Cabal is a commando, viewed from behind, trying to destroy various enemy military bases.
Game (disambiguation) Game has the following meanings: recreational activity; a surreal numbers (written with a capital...
Homefront (game) See Homefront (disambiguation) for other uses of the term.
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 Category:Disambiguation - SkyGamers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
More are linked in the article Site:Links to disambiguating pages.
Disambiguation pages should not have links, or at least, not many.
Note: There is a discussion on the Pump discussing adding the disambiguation template to this category, which would eventually add all disambiguation pages here.
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 Pendulum (disambiguation) Definition / Pendulum (disambiguation) Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pendulum, a 1968 movie, directed by George Schaefer, starring George PeppardGeorge Peppard (October 1, 1928 - May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.
He starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), although he is probaby further famous among younger viewers for his role as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith in the cult 1980s television show The A-Team, where he's the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squadron....
Pendulum is the title of a 1970 albumAn album (from Latin albus "white", "blank", relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things.
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 Real Estate Cody Wyoming
Commando Cody was the hero in three science-fiction serials made around 1950by Republic Pictures, and a 1952 feature movie based on theseries titled The Lost Planet Airmen.
The serials include King of the Rocket Men (1949) - which some call the last of Republic's good serials, as this formatfrom the early days of radio was falling victim to television - and Radar Men from the Moon (1952).
For other places with the same name, see Wyoming (disambiguation).
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 Bionic Commando Codes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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