By any possible definition, SAS are the top SF in the world. They don't go around claiming that, that's the difference.
All the SF operators respect each other, this utter nonsense in the media of glamorizing US SF and claiming they're the best has got to stop, it's arrogant and stupid.
Im pretty sure all SF claim to be the best world wide.
sharelol getting mad at tv show is pretty dumb, all operators call themselves elite, they just happen to be the most elite unit in the navy and in the water. SAS and Delta are more a like while SBS and Six guys are more alike, so at least get your stuff straight. Also i take it you never watched strikeback which is a british show where most of the characters are SAS besides one american who is Delta, but they also called themselves the most Elite unit, so did flashpoint which is about canadian operators. so if you gonna get mad at american tv shows you might as well get mad at all of them.
shareI don't really get why you are so angry about this, seems silly.
shareOp,are you licsenced to carry????I/we hope not!its only a tv program...,.
shareMost elite. Deal with it.
shareThe SEALS are a fantastic unit, but no. They are themselves based on the British SBS, who even trained the original SEALS back in WW2 (the UDT's). SBS founded in 1940, SEALS in 1962. SAS in 1941.
The SAS and SBS are the fathers of modern SF. Every major SF unit on the plant is based on the SAS or SBS: Deltas, Seals, GSG9, Aussie and Kiwi SAS, S African Commandos.
Tom Clancy wrote a book called "Rainbow Six" that addressed this very topic. The book is about an international antiterrorism unit made up of men from various SF from around the world. The idea being that countries will be quicker to ask for assistance if one of "their guys" is on the team. The truth is that all of these units around the world are so well trained only a handful of people would be able to judge who is best.
Sometimes, the only thing that makes one SF team better than the other is how much sleep they got on a given night. Or what the had for breakfast.
Rainbow six was such an excellent read. Second best to clancy's without remorse
shareDid the book series or the game series come first?
shareThe book came out first in 1998. Great great read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Six_(novel)
"defcon" lol... Makes me think of a chubby kid in his grandmother's basement. This one with a larger dose of Nationalism than most. Ours are better than yours are nah, nah , nah, nee, nah, nah... ?
shareDo most people even know what special forces do? They're not superhuman. Go read Black Hawk Down and, well, watch Lone Survivor, at least that movie was honest, unlike the Black Hawk Down movie. The book was great, the only thing the movie really took wholesale from it was the scene where the two Delta guys who won the Medal of Honor went down to protect the pilot from the Somali mob. Special Forces are just trained to complete sensitive missions like hostage rescue and small raids that most ordinary grunts can't do. That's why the training basically is set up to weed out people who aren't patient and can't take pain. It's not about finding the best, baddest fighter.
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