History's Best Elite Fighting Force

One word  that makes an enemies blood run cold; Gurkha  :-)

• Gideon
• Spartans
• Praetorian Guard
• 5. SS-Panzer-Division „Wiking“
• Division Brandenburg
• GSG9
• Russian Spetsnaz GRU
• Mossad
• Légion étrangère    French Foreign Legion
• U.S. Navy Seals
• U.S. Rangers

…there would be a few more

I always admired the British paratroopers under (Col.?) Frost covering the last bridge in Operation Market Garden.  I think it was the 6th Airborne, maybe at Neijmegen (sp, for sure)?

The book A Bridge Too Far recounts very well what they went through.

Actually I think that was Arnhem.  It’s been a while since I thought of that stuff.

Arnhem! My favorite battle of World War II.

GG

@Noll:

Mongolian Horse-Archers
They were trained to shoot while raiding a horse, they were very precise (They were shooting only in that half a second when the horse’s legs are not touching the ground), and they had a very hard and strong bow that pierced through heavy plates like a gun through butter.

In Richard Armour’s satirical history of warfare, he states (as I recall) that Atilla the Hun’s cavalrymen used formidable double-handed battle axes which could split in two an enemy rider and his horse, but that sometimes the Huns would get lazy and use their axes one-handed, with the result that the enemy rider would be split in two while his horse would escape with only a slight nick on its back.

@CWO:

@Noll:

Mongolian Horse-Archers
They were trained to shoot while raiding a horse, they were very precise (They were shooting only in that half a second when the horse’s legs are not touching the ground), and they had a very hard and strong bow that pierced through heavy plates like a gun through butter.

In Richard Armour’s satirical history of warfare, he states (as I recall) that Atilla the Hun’s cavalrymen used formidable double-handed battle axes which could split in two an enemy rider and his horse, but that sometimes the Huns would get lazy and use their axes one-handed, with the result that the enemy rider would be split in two while his horse would escape with only a slight nick on its back.

ouch

Task Force 141!!!
from call of duty

GO TASK FORCE 141!