48001 "GOTHIC SERPENT"

United States Armed Forces ) are currently the most powerful and strongest troops in the world, with an active staff of approximately 1.36 million people and a budget of $ 686 billion in 2018. Depending on the size of the US Armed Forces, they have extensive, broadly understood special forces, which virtually all types of US armed forces have. For example, in the US Army they are Rangers or Green Berets, and in the US Navy they are SEALs. Since 1987, the overall oversight of the conduct of US Special Operations rests with the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which is based at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. The idea to create such a command was born shortly after the completely unsuccessful operation Orli Pazur in 1980, the failure of which - in the course of analyzes - resulted precisely from the lack of coordination and joint command of various special forces units. The tasks of the American special units include, among others: conducting direct actions, anti-terrorist actions, conducting reconnaissance in the enemy's distant rear or anti-drug operations. Special forces were used on a large scale during the intervention in Afghanistan (since 2001) and in Iraq (since 2003).