I have to write an essay on any Special Warfare topic, to include

I was thinking like ISA or something like that

>>34490979
Talk about that Asian green beret who during I think Robin Sage or something memorized his CC # and went to a papa johns and ordered pizzas for his team. He got caught because they found receipts.

>>34491007
>>34491007
haha yeah i read about him, what a fucking boss

Mac-v sog

>>34491136
I'm sure these guys have libraries of books and papers about this in their offices, but yes, this is the right direction

>>34490979
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Special_Unit

>In 1943, a 28-year-old British officer, Captain Ivan Lyon of the Allied Intelligence Bureau and Gordon Highlanders, and a 61-year-old Australian civilian, Bill Reynolds, devised a plan to attack Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour. Z Special Unit would travel to the harbour in a disguised fishing boat. They would then use folding kayaks to attach limpet mines to Japanese ships. General Archibald Wavell approved the plan, and Lyon was sent to Australia to organise the operation.[7]

>Bill Reynolds was in possession of a 21.3 metre-long Japanese coastal fishing boat, the Kofuku Maru, which he had used to evacuate refugees out of Singapore. Lyon ordered that the boat be shipped from India to Australia. Upon its arrival, he renamed the vessel MV Krait, after the small but deadly Asian snake.[7] Lieutenant-Colonel G. Egerton Mott, the chief of the Services Reconnaissance Department, suggested that they should test the effectiveness of the plan by making a mock raid on a tightly guarded Allied port. Townsville, Queensland was chosen for the location of the attack.[8]

>By the end of March 1943, Carey had assembled a team of nine men on their base at Magnetic Island. Lyon and Mott arranged to have Carey's unit perform a mock attack on Townsville, although they were careful not to commit anything to paper. Townsville was a busy harbour full of troop transports, merchantmen and naval escort vessels, and tight security was maintained due to the constant threat of Japanese air and submarine attack.[10]

>At midnight on 22 June 1943, the unit left Magnetic Island and paddled by folboat through the heavily mined mouth of Townsville Harbour. Dummy limpet mines were attached to ten ships, including two destroyers. The men rowed into Ross Creek, dismantled and hid their folboats, then travelled into Townsville to find a place to sleep. Around 10:00 am, the limpets were discovered, and panic ensued.[10]

>>34491252
>Operation Copper was one of the last Z Special operations in New Guinea. On the night of 11 April 1945, eight operatives were landed near Muschu Island by HDML patrol boat. Their mission was to paddle ashore and reconnoitre the island to determine the status of Japanese defences and validate reports that two 140 mm long-range naval guns were still in position. Intelligence suggested that these weapons were back in service and could prove dangerous during the forthcoming invasion of Wewak, as they had sufficient range to fire into the proposed landing areas and, while they would not stop the Australian invasion, they could cause significant casualties.[19]

>Caught by unexpected currents the four folboats were pushed south of their landing area and came ashore amid a surf break. All boats were swamped and some items of equipment lost, but they made it ashore and harboured up until morning.[20] At daybreak they commenced their reconnaissance of the island, soon encountering Japanese who, unbeknownst to them, had found equipment that was washed ashore further along the island. Thus alerted, the island became a hunting ground, with almost 1,000 Japanese searching for the patrol.[21] Attempts to communicate by radio with the HDML patrol boat failed, as their radios had been swamped and the batteries ruined.[22]

>Of the eight men, only one survived. Sapper Mick Dennis, an experienced commando who had previously fought the Japanese in New Guinea in several significant engagements, escaped after fighting his way through Japanese patrols.[23] He swam the channel to Wewak while being pursued by the Japanese and made his way through enemy territory to eventually meet up with an Australian patrol on 20 April.[24] The information he returned with proved vital to keeping the guns out of action and in preventing the Japanese from using the island as a launching point for attacks against the Australian forces during the Wewak landings a month later.[25]

>>34491281
>Operation Jaywick was an Inter-Allied Services Department operation to infiltrate the Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour and destroy shipping. On 2 September 1943, the Krait, with a crew of eleven Australian and four British personnel, left Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia. The group, commanded by Ivan Lyon, dyed their skin brown and hair black (the skin dye later caused many skin problems for the members of the team, including irritation and reactions in adverse amounts of sunlight). They also wore sarongs, so that they resembled Indonesian fisherman.[11]

>They arrived off Singapore on 24 September, that night, six men left the boat and paddled 50 kilometres (31 mi) to a small island near the harbour where a forward base was established in a cave. On the night of 26 September, using folboats the party paddled into the harbour and placed limpet mines on several Japanese ships, the limpet mines sank or seriously damaged four Japanese ships, amounting to over 39,000 tons. The raiders waited until the commotion had died down before returning to the Krait. On 19 October the Krait arrived back at Exmouth Gulf having achieved a great success.[11]

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>>34490979
anders lassen and the No. 62 Commandos

>>34490979
Talk about operation eldest son. AKA booby trapping AK mags so that when used they explode in their face.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Eldest_Son

Or another one is operation Paul Bunyan. AKA fuck this tree in particular
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_murder_incident

>>34490979
great skill?

>>34490995
I'm not aware of enough publicly available information on ISA to write much of a paper. The one thing that comes to mind is Mark Bowden's account of them in Killing Pablo.

>>34491917
that's my problem, i don't want to go into work to access the secret stuff, everything is heavily redacted on google though. i guess task force 88 or something

Check out the book Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956–1990 - it's about a lessor known cold war era SF detachment in Germany. Very interesting read and not many sources about it.

>>34492156
I'll check it out, thank you

>>34491007
>He got caught because they found receipts
This is what really blows my mind.

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Read this book. Write about how McChrystal tried to change sof structure to try to adapt to a complex environment. Just a suggestion

Operation Phoenix in Vietnam. MAC-V sog sabotaging ammo caches with bullets full of explosives, MAC-V sog recon operations behind enemy lines, and in Las and Cambodia

>>34494958
i read the cliffnotes, decent

>>34490979
SOE

http://nigelperrin.com/soeagents.htm

>>34490979
Gladio is an interesting if not controversial one.

Basically right wing paramilitary stay behind teams trained in SF guerilla tactics and with tons of weapons caches all over Europe at the height of the Cold War, ready for the ruskies invading.
Gladio was just the Italian cell.

If youre interested:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

>>34496537
this one is really cool

>>34496804
Thought youd like it mate, enjoy

>>34490979

Write a paper on Frederick Townsend Ward and the Ever Victorious Army.

If you've never heard of him, it's because he was an American mercenary in China during the American Civil War.

Ward learned his trade working with William Walker in Mexico.

Some Wiki shit:
Ward learned about practical warfare during his "filibusteresque" experience in 1854 and when he served as a lieutenant with the French Army in the Crimean War. He learned about weapons, tactics, using riflemen in mobile platoons rather than in fixed firing lines and siege techniques.[7] Ward also learned that the frontal assault was of limited value against disciplined long-range firepower, and he gained experience under fire.

Good shit.

Gladio
Son Tay Raid

>>34490979
How about SOG in vietnam? How squad sized elements would sneak behind enemy lines and magdump into battalion sized NVA units marching through the jungle, and then set off decoys to trick the gooks into thinking bullets were still flying overhead while they were long gone.

I don't have them, but i remember seeing pictures of VC and NVA from like 20 feet away that some SOG dude took before he killed them. All the psyop shit in vietnam is cool as fuck and thats really where the birth of SOF forces and tactics was too.

>>34490979

lame ass do your own homework

be sure to mention this thread for credits in your essay

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>>34494380
Kek. As a fellow Asian it makes sense, he was trying to keep it for tax purposes. Trying to get a little back.