The Brandenburgers were members of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht special forces unit during World War II.
Otto Skorzeny (left) and the former Brandenburger Adrian von Fölkersam (middle) now with Skorzeny's SS-Jagdverbände in Budapest after Operation Panzerfaust, 16 October 1944
Special forces or special operations forces (SOF) are military units trained to conduct special operations. NATO has defined special operations as "military activities conducted by specially designated, organized, selected, trained and equipped forces using unconventional techniques and modes of employment".
An American special forces team moves together out of an U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey aircraft on February 26, 2018
Japanese drawing of the archetypical ninja, from a series of sketches (Hokusai manga) by Hokusai.
British Army scouts in South Africa (1893): Frederick Russell Burnham (middle); Hon. Maurice Gifford (right)
General Antonio Luna of the Philippine Revolutionary Army, the founder of Tiradores dela Muerte