![]() Royal Marines in a forest near Stuttgart, Germany. In June and July, Green Berets trained with Serbian Police from that country’s Special Anti-terrorist Unit. In September, Navy SEALs worked with Cypriot Army Special Forces. The next month, Green Berets from the 10th Special Forces Group took part in a live-fire training exercise alongside U.K. Special Operations Command Europe, of Black Swan 21. “I think this is the manifestation of everything that is great about NATO, several NATO allies coming together and even non-NATO partners coming together to share their tactics, techniques, procedures, and lessons learned so that we’re all better,” said U.S. Naval Special Warfare operators and Army Green Berets traveled to Hungary to train alongside elite Austrian, Croatian, Hungarian, Slovakian, and Slovenian troops as part of Black Swan 21, a training exercise focused on enhancing “peer-to-peer deterrence and resiliency of alliances and partnerships” in Europe. ![]() commandos deployed overseas this year were sent to Europe, the largest percentage of any region in the world except for the Greater Middle East and Africa. Special Operations forces’ global activity. This accounts for a significant proportion of U.S. Special Operations forces - Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and others - were deployed in at least 33 European countries, including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. This “focus” has led America’s most elite troops to fan out across Europe, operating from one end of the continent to the other. In 2021, U.S. “Our SOF have partnered with European allies since before 2014, focused on resistance and building resistance networks… But that is not just in the Baltics - Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia - that’s through the rest of Europe.” Special Operations Command late last month, using the acronym for Special Operations forces. “For SOF, we’re going to be focused on campaigning, especially in the Grey Zone - below the threshold of conflict,” said Gen.
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