Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot recently announced the establishment of a commando brigade that will consolidate four of the IDF's most elite Special Forces units: Maglan, Duvdevan (both currently affiliated with the Paratroopers Brigade), Egoz (affiliated with Golani Brigade) and Rimon (affiliated with Givati Brigade).The article notes that most U.S. Special Forces fall under the TOE of the 75th Ranger Regiment. The British SAS also has a regimental sized organization with different units tasked with different functions, air, sea, etc...
This would seem to give the Israelis the ability to to bring a considerable amount of SF firepower to the battlefield in one massive jolt.
In this author's opinion the IDF should also be ramping up its seaborne SF capability, given the nation's looming natural gas platform in the Med.
This plan also has the benefit of creating a Special Forces all-star team, almost like a movie cliche, Think of any WWII commando movie. There you go.
Of course, the coalition had something like that in Iraq, a mysterious commando team with several names, Task Force 145, Task Force 6-26 and so on. It was a Special Forces all-star team with Green Berets, SEALs, Delta Force, and just to ad some character British and even Australian SAS.
No joke, folks. These are the guys that took out Zarqawi.
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