List of defunct special forces units

[[australia|🇦🇺]] Australia

 * Australian commandos
 * No. 200 Flight RAAF
 * Royal Australian Navy Beach Commandos
 * Z Special Unit
 * Combined Field Intelligence Service
 * M Special Unit
 * Bushveldt Carbineers

[[canada|🇨🇦]] Canada

 * 1st Special Service Force
 * The Canadian Airborne Regiment

🇭🇷 [[croatia|Croatia]]

 * Crna legija

🇬🇷 [[greece|Greece]]

 * Sacred Band

[[fiji|🇫🇯]] Fiji

 * Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit

[[israel|🇮🇱]]Israel

 * Palmach
 * Unit 101
 * Samson Unit
 * Force 100
 * Sayeret Haruv
 * Sayeret Rimon
 * TAT'ZAM

[[italy|🇮🇹]]Italy

 * Regia Marina
 * Decima Flottiglia MAS

[[undefined|Nazi Germany]]

 * Brandenburgers

[[portugal|🇵🇹]]Portugal

 * Flechas
 * Grupos Especiais

Rhodesia

 * Selous Scouts
 * Rhodesian Special Air Service

[[south africa|🇿🇦]] South Africa

 * 32 Battalion
 * Koevoet
 * South Africa Marine Corps

[[sri lanka|🇱🇰]]Sri Lanka

 * Special Service Group

Syria

 * Defense companies

[[turkey|🇹🇷]] Turkey

 * Özel Harp Dairesi

[[united kingdom|🇬🇧]]United Kingdom

 * British Army
 * Army Commandos
 * Chindits
 * Long Range Desert Group
 * Popski's Private Army


 * Royal Navy
 * Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment
 * British commando frogmen


 * Combined Operations
 * 30 Assault Unit


 * Directorate of Military Intelligence
 * Force 136
 * Special Operations Executive
 * Small Scale Raiding Force

[[united states|🇺🇸]]United States

 * The Civil War
 * Jessie Scouts
 * Mosby's Rangers
 * Quantrill's Raiders


 * World War II
 * 1st Air Commando Group
 * 1st Special Service Force "Devil's Brigade"
 * 5307th Composite Unit (provisional) "Merrill's Marauders"
 * Alamo Scouts
 * Alaskan Scouts
 * Army Ranger Battalions
 * Marine Raiders
 * Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion
 * Marine Parachute Battalions
 * Naval Scouts and Raiders
 * Navy Combat Demolition Units (NCDU) and Underwater Demolitions Teams (UDT)
 * Navy Beach Jumpers
 * Naval Group China
 * Office of Strategic Services
 * (OSS) Jedburgh Teams
 * OSS Operational Groups (OG)
 * OSS Maritime Unit (MU)
 * OSS Maritime Unit Operational Swimmer Group


 * Korean War
 * Air Resupply And Communications Service (ARCS)
 * Airborne Ranger Companies
 * Combined Command Reconnaissance Activities, Korea (CCRAK)
 * Joint Advisory Commission, Korea (JACK)
 * United Nations Partisan Infantry Korea (UNPIK)


 * Vietnam War
 * 46th Special Forces Company
 * Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP)
 * MIKE Force
 * Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group(MACV-SOG)
 * Phoenix Program
 * Project "Leaping Lena" (Vietnam War)
 * Project DELTA
 * Project Sigma and Project Omega
 * Tiger Force
 * US Navy Boat Support Units (BSU)


 * Other
 * 6th Special Forces Group
 * 7th special forces Group (airborne)
 * 8th Special Forces Group
 * 11th Special Forces Group
 * 12th Special Forces Group
 * 129th Special Operations Aviation Company (SOAC)
 * "Blue light"
 * Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment One (MCSOCOM-Det 1) (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
 * Red Cell
 * SEASPRAY
 * Special Operations Combat Control Team (SOCCT)
 * Task Force 11 (Operation Enduring Freedom)
 * Task Force 20, Task Force 121 (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
 * Task Force Bayonet (Operation Just Cause)
 * Task Force Ranger (Operation Gothic Serpent)
 * Yellow Fruit

Vietnam

 * Vietnamese Rangers
 * LLDB
 * Vietnamese Special Mission Service