Special forces, or special operations forces are terms used to describe highy-trained military units trained to perform unconventional, often high-risk missions.
Special forces, as they would now be recognised, emerged in the early 20th century, with a significant growth in the field during the Second World War.
Special forces capabilities include the following:
Special forces have played an important role throughout the history of warfare whenever the aim has been to achieve disruption by "hit and run" and sabotage, rather than more traditional conventional army combat. Other significant roles lay in reconnaissance, providing essential intelligence from close to or among the enemy, and increasingly in combating terrorists, their infrastructure and activities.
Chinese strategist Jiang Ziya, in his Six Secret Teachings, describes recruiting talented and highly-motivated men for serving in specialized elite units with such functions as commanding heights and making rapid long-distance advances.Hamilcar Barca in Sicily (249 BC) had specialized troops trained to launch several offensives per day. In the late Roman or early Byzantine period, Roman fleets used small, fast camouflaged ships crewed by selected men for scouting and commando missions. Similarly, Muslim forces also had several naval special operations units, including one which used camouflaged ships to gather intelligence and launch raids, and another which consisted of soldiers who could pass for Crusaders who would use ruses to board enemy ships and then capture and destroy them. While more commonly known as spies and assassins, Japanese ninja were sometimes used as assault troops or fortress guards, or otherwise fought alongside more conventional soldiers. During the Napoleonic wars, rifle and sapper units were formed who held more specialised roles in reconnaissance and skirmishing and were not committed to the formal battle lines.
Sergeant ‘Andy McNab’ DCM MM (born 28 December 1959) is the pseudonym of an English novelist and former SAS operative and soldier.
McNab came into public prominence in 1993, when he published his account of the Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, Bravo Two Zero for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1991. He had previously received the Military Medal in 1980, awarded for an action whilst serving with the Royal Green Jackets in Northern Ireland during 1979.
In addition to Bravo Two Zero he has written two other autobiographies and a number of fiction books.
McNab was born on 28 December 1959. Found abandoned on the steps of Guy's Hospital in Southwark, he was brought up in Peckham, with his adoptive family. He did not do well in school so dropped out and worked at various odd jobs, usually for friends and relatives, and was partly inspired to join the British Army because of his brother's time in the army.
He was involved in petty criminality until being arrested for burglary. In 1976, shortly after his arrest, he aspired to a career as an army pilot, but failed the entry test. In the same year, he enlisted with the Royal Green Jackets at the age of sixteen.
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Voltage is an action-packed sci-fi film, set in a not too distant dystopian future. With the country under the strict new regime of The Shakti, citizens are seeing their worlds crumble. Money has become a depleted commodity, and has been replaced with energy units, making the struggle for survival a much harder challenge than ever before. We follow our hero, Adrian, as he battles against this new regime, psychopathic energy harvesters, and a group of rebels aiming to overthrow the system, in order to revert the system back to a prehistoric state. A fast-paced, high-octane thrill ride, Voltage uses its vibrant energy and its underlying political messages to keep audiences enthralled and entertained throughout.
Plot
Voltage is an action-packed sci-fi film, set in a not too distant dystopian future. With the country under the strict new regime of The Shakti, citizens are seeing their worlds crumble. Money has become a depleted commodity, and has been replaced with energy units, making the struggle for survival a much harder challenge than ever before. We follow our hero, Adrian, as he battles against this new regime, psychopathic energy harvesters, and a group of rebels aiming to overthrow the system, in order to revert the system back to a prehistoric state. A fast-paced, high-octane thrill ride, Voltage uses its vibrant energy and its underlying political messages to keep audiences enthralled and entertained throughout.
Plot
Voltage is an action-packed sci-fi film, set in a not too distant dystopian future. With the country under the strict new regime of The Shakti, citizens are seeing their worlds crumble. Money has become a depleted commodity, and has been replaced with energy units, making the struggle for survival a much harder challenge than ever before. We follow our hero, Adrian, as he battles against this new regime, psychopathic energy harvesters, and a group of rebels aiming to overthrow the system, in order to revert the system back to a prehistoric state. A fast-paced, high-octane thrill ride, Voltage uses its vibrant energy and its underlying political messages to keep audiences enthralled and entertained throughout.
Plot
Voltage is an action-packed sci-fi film, set in a not too distant dystopian future. With the country under the strict new regime of The Shakti, citizens are seeing their worlds crumble. Money has become a depleted commodity, and has been replaced with energy units, making the struggle for survival a much harder challenge than ever before. We follow our hero, Adrian, as he battles against this new regime, psychopathic energy harvesters, and a group of rebels aiming to overthrow the system, in order to revert the system back to a prehistoric state. A fast-paced, high-octane thrill ride, Voltage uses its vibrant energy and its underlying political messages to keep audiences enthralled and entertained throughout.
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An elite security team assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team soon learns - the real horror is not the unstoppable force chasing them, but the ever growing smaller tunnel itself.
Plot
An elite security team assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team soon learns - the real horror is not the unstoppable force chasing them, but the ever growing smaller tunnel itself.
Plot
An elite security team assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team soon learns - the real horror is not the unstoppable force chasing them, but the ever growing smaller tunnel itself.
Plot
An elite security team assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team soon learns - the real horror is not the unstoppable force chasing them, but the ever growing smaller tunnel itself.
Plot
An elite security team assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team soon learns - the real horror is not the unstoppable force chasing them, but the ever growing smaller tunnel itself.
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Roy Neary sets out to investigate a power outage when his truck stalls and he is bathed in light from above. After this, strange visions and five musical notes keep running through his mind. Will he find the meaning of the visions, and who - or what - placed them in his mind?
Keywords: air-traffic-control, air-traffic-controller, airplane, alien, alien-abduction, alien-contact, alien-invasion, animate-toy, astronaut, blackout
Close Encounter of the First Kind - Sighting of a UFO. Close Encounter of the Second Kind - Physical Evidence. Close Encounter of the Third Kind - Contact. WE ARE NOT ALONE
We are not alone
Now There Is More (USA 1980 special edition re-release)
Brad Neary: I don't understand these fractions.::Roy Neary: What's one third of sixty?::Brad Neary: [bewildered] That's a fraction, I don't understand them.::Roy Neary: [using a model train as an object lesson] Alright, let's say that this boxcar is sixty feet long, OK?, and one third of it is across this switch here, alright... And now another train is coming... Now, how far do you have to move this boxcar so that the other train doesn't smash it? Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake... Brad any answer...::[CRASH]
Claude Lacombe: Major Walsh, it is an event sociologique.
[Roy is shoveling soil into his kitchen window]::Roy Neary: Ronnie, if I don't do this, *that's* when I'm going to need a doctor.
Claude Lacombe: Mr. Neary, what do you want?::Roy Neary: I just want to know that it's really happening.
Roy Neary: [contemplating the lump shape] This means something. This is important.
Roy Neary: I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows... Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.
Roy Neary: I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad. It's okay, though. I'm still Dad.
[Roy's wife does not believe how he got the burns on his face]::Roy Neary: Well they're not moon burns, goddamnit.
Barry Guiler: You can come and play now.
Roy Neary: [checking the paper] Hey, you know what's playing tonight? Pinocchio! You guys have never seen Pinocchio, you're in luck!::Brad Neary: Aw, who wants to see some dumb cartoon rated 'G' for kids?::Roy Neary: How old are you?::Brad Neary: Eight.::Roy Neary: You wanna be nine?::Brad Neary: Yeah.::Roy Neary: Then you're going to go see Pinocchio tomorrow night.::[Brad makes a disgusted gesture, but shuts up]::Ronnie Neary: Roy, that is a terrific way to win over your children.::Roy Neary: I'm not serious, I'm just saying that I grew up with Pinocchio, and if kids are still kids, they're going to eat it up.::[Ronnie looks at him in disgust]::Roy Neary: Okay, I'm wrong, all right? I'm Wrong Roy.::[Yells at his youngest son, who is demolishing his sister's doll]::Roy Neary: TOBY! You are close to death! Come out here!::[Toby giggles, but obeys]::Roy Neary: Okay, let's have a vote. Tomorrow night you can play Goofy Golf, which is a lot of standing in line and shoving and pushing, and probably getting a 'zero,' or you can see Pinocchio, which is a lot of furry animals and magic, and you'll have a wonderful time. Okay? So let's vote.::[the kids all vote for golf]
You were born with special forces
Looks to kill and a mouth that curses
When it hurts I want to take you down
You were born so I could kiss you
Snort cocaine and lick it off you
All the same I want to take you down
But I dream of someone else, sometimes I hate myself
But I can't change myself, so now you've got me got me got me
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
You may be pain but I don't regret you
Often still I can't respect you
All of me just wants to take you down
The devil comes, the force is with you
Consideration has never been you
All the same I want to take you down
But I dream of someone else, sometimes I hate myself
But I can't change myself, so now you've got me got me got me
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
Do what you want you've got special forces [6X]
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
There's special forces inside my brain
That make me live and feel insane
You hate me now see my power
There's no escape cause I just lit the fire
Too late if you want to stay live
You want my head, you're gonna die
You're gonna to commit a suicide
Your head is burning, you start to cry
You should have stayed on my side..
Upside, on the ocean (???), there must be a way to breathe
No ??? like before
A place what you see is what you ???
?? and fuck on the rest
Mental wires are sucking our bones
See how tha insect hooks
Towers open fire
Burning the records
Please enter the garden
The green garden of delights
No more trouble
No more answers
No mer songs of joy
The sugeon plies the steel
If we do well, we shall
Drink the juice and eat the pill
From red insects we dissect
From dark ah ah we reject
Descend lower, descend slowly
Find your own conception
Descend lower, descend slowly
Find your knife construction
Mental wires we must freeze
Lethal fires burn our knees
Garden of delights / Green garden
Feat. Cali Agents, Chops (Mtn. Brothers), DJ Revolution
[Bahamadia]
Poems stay calm, approachin it
They be flop and over it
Back on my feet just like I'm 'posed to get (Yeah!)
Livin up, I tell it y'all totin chicks
You ain't really hot, you just image and politics
The total type, y'all duplicates and male affiliates
Soundin the silliest, doin renditions of hits like Al Yankovic
I never been, kept it in suspense like a scene outta Scream legacy
Like Marcia Jones, I'm reppin for queens
Doin royal things, lock em down for offspring
Whole team be a bunch of backpackers and mic fiends
We all first string, spittin them jewels that bling bling
And when I hit mainstream, y'all niggas can bite me
*Cuts by DJ Revolution*
"Live and direct" [Kool G Rap] "Yeah"
"We takin over
"Live and direct" "Yeah"
"We move like the special forces, green beret" [Prodigy]
"Live and direct" "Yeah"
"That's the reason why none of y'all can't compete" [Big Daddy Kane]
[Planet Asia]
Aiyyo these is ghetto-bound scripts
For pseudo MC's to breathe off of
I vaporize tracks like mentalyptis with active ingredients
Comin straight from the Yardie
My click rolls thicker than the Black Panther party
Up next for Generation X
Most of these rap cats is barely fresh
And when they carry me, they gon' bury me wit a mic on my chest
Wit a wide crowd lookin
But for now, these mic minerals is Ital cookings
Gettin seasoned on, we carry blades of various shapes
For the crates and CD's, and those still married to tapes
Bahama-d up in the spot wit Cali Agents and Chops
For all you big shots that thought you had this rap game locked
[Rasco]
[c-murder]
I mean mug fake niggas that be testin' my presence
So duck and run, young nigga, 187 ya fellows
Friend or foe, you'se hoe, so dry ya eyes I'm bustin'
I told these bitches I'm thuggin', them ghetto niggas they love me
C-p-3 to h-0-v I feel no pain for real
I got the status of a motherfucker hard to kill
I walk a block and watch them fools just step to the side
It's open wide in my city cause these niggas be shootin'
Like vietnam, them niggas get the one time
I put ya crack on a block, I ain't hard to find
A million dollars is my dream 'til I'm dead and gone
Watch me relive my life through my songs, ya feeling me?
Chorus [big ed]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
(bitch who you playing with? ] (bitch who you playing with? ]
[kane]
Get the fuck on the floor don't you move an inch
Bitch flinch, I'll be on that ass quicker than nick
I done spent to much time earning my respect
My rights and lefts leaving you missing teeth like them rednecks
[abel]
Yeah you think it's funny while you crackin' jokes
I'll be crackin' necks, if properly prevoked
Get chocked, playin' around niggas I don't know
And why you talking stupid when we around some hoes?
Bitch stop playing I done told you before
I'ma wire ya jaw, and leave you suckas sippin' through a straw
Or I could run ya over with my 4 by 4
And back up, bitch don't act up no more
Chorus [big ed]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
(bitch who you playing with? ] (bitch who you playing with? ]
[big ed]
Nigga you play to goddamn much
Nigga you'se gonna fuck around and get your ass touched
You lucky you'se my boy, my dogg at that
Cause if you wasn't you would of been got the gat
Had a hoe call my house, when I got home
Why you cuss a nigga out? , words out
My gun out, I don't know what you talking about
Remember that gat that got your ass strecthed out?
Woke up on the floor a bloody dick was in your mouth
You flapped on the ground like I just caught a trout
Now you'se my childhood nigga, but I ain't in the mood today
Man grow the fuck up, cause all you do is play
Chorus [big ed]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
Don't play with me brah (bitch who you playing with? ]
(bitch who you playing with? ](bitch who you playing with? ]
Get your ass whipped, what? , get your ass whipped, what?
Get your ass whipped, what? , get your ass whipped, what?
Get your ass whipped, what? , get your ass whipped, what?
Get your ass whipped, what? , get your ass whipped, what?
Get your ass whipped, what? , get your ass whipped, what?
Get your ass whipped, what? , get your ass whipped, what?
Get your ass whipped, what? , get your ass whipped, what?
Get your ass whipped, huh? , get your ass whipped, what?
You were born with special forces
Looks to kill and a mouth that curses
When it hurts I want to take you down
You were born so I could kiss you
Snort cocaine and lick it off you
All the same I want to take you down
But I dream of someone else, sometimes I hate myself
But I can't change myself, so now you've got me got me got me
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
You may be pain but I don't regret you
Often still I can't respect you
All of me just wants to take you down
The devil comes, the force is with you
Consideration has never been you
All the same I want to take you down
But I dream of someone else, sometimes I hate myself
But I can't change myself, so now you've got me got me got me
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
Do what you want you've got special forces [6X]
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal
You keep me tied down and tortured on a chain of love
I'm not your slave but you treat me like an animal