British Commando operations during the Second World War

invented, however, by the British — specifically by Lord Kitchener, who established the first during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). The conflict had evolved

The Vietnam War, also known as the American War (by the Vietnamese) or the Second Indochina War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam

comparing his dueling days with commando tactics, as quoted in Skorzeny (1972) by Charles Whiting, p. 17. All's fair in love and war. Francis Edward Smedley,

expedition or enterprise" from the United States against a country with which the United States is not (officially) at war. The commando raids were combined with

by donkeys. Said to captured British officers during the Siege of Tobruk, as quoted in The Guinness History of the British Army (1993) by John Pimlott