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 | | Troops were raised by the King when required, a development of the feudal concept of fief (in which a lord was obligated to raise a certain quota of knights, men at arms and yeomanry, under greater control of the King). |
 | | World War II saw the British army develop its Commando units inlcluding the Special Air Services, based, in part, on the success of German *stosstruppen* in breaking tactical deadlock in the First World War. |
 | | Despite the decline of the British Empire, the Army was still deployed around the world, fighting in the Korean War, the Suez crisis of 1956, and colonial wars in Oman and Malaysia. |
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