Traduction de «Army Special Operations Component » (Anglais → Français) :

Army Special Operations Aviation

Afghan National Army Special Operations Command

The American war plan to attack Iraq is patterned after the military intervention in Afghanistan in some ways, including reliance on air superiority (which the US has long enjoyed over Iraqi skies), the use of joint CIA-Army special operations units (apparently already in the Gulf), and coordination with a small allied force on the ground (probably the Kurds, who for once are united against the Iraqi army instead of being mired in internecine fighting).

While our combat commitment is being mounted by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the special operations forces of the Canadian Army will continue to supply training and mentoring support to the Iraqi Army.

The chauvinism within the United States can be traced straight back to, for example, the fact that the United States special operations command, which encompasses all the various special operating branches of the United States forces, is the same size as the entire regular Canadian army.

24. Notes the fact that EU battlegroups have never yet been deployed and considers that their existence will be difficult to justify over time; stresses that they constitute an important tool for timely force generation, training and rapid reaction; welcomes the decision to address this issue during the December Summit; is convinced that the EU should dispose of high-readiness standing battle forces, with land, air, naval, cyber and special forces components and a high level of ambition; underlines the fact that EU battlegroups should be deployable for all types of crises, including climate-driven humanitarian crisis; favours a more ...[+++] flexible and targeted approach to enhance the response and adaptability to different crisis situations, and to improve modularity in order to close gaps during the initial phases of the launch of CSDP operations without, however, compromising the operational capacity of the battlegroup as a whole;