commando
thumb|upright=1.2| Royal Marines from [[40 Commando on patrol in the Sangin area of Afghanistan are pictured]]A commando is a combatant, or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force, specially trained for carrying out raids and operating in small teams behind enemy lines.
Article
28 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Selection
- Boer name origin and adoption by Britain
- Green berets and training
- World War I
- Austro-Hungarian assault units
- Italy
- World War II
- Australia
- Canada
- Finland
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Poland
- Soviet Union
- United Kingdom
- United States
- After 1945
- Israeli
- Philippines
- Turkey
- UK
- US
- See also
- References
thumb|upright=1.2| Royal Marines from [[40 Commando on patrol in the Sangin area of Afghanistan are pictured]]A commando is a combatant, or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force, specially trained for carrying out raids and operating in small teams behind enemy lines.
== Etymology == thumb|Cape Mounted Burghers, or "kommando," assembling for action in 1846 during the Seventh Xhosa War. The term originally referred to the mounted infantry of this type.