Welcome to the Age of the Commando - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-commando.html
Special Operations Command, or Socom, oversees all Special Operations Forces — our Delta Force operators, Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Army Rangers, among others. Special Operations personnel deployed to approximately 139 nations in 2015 — about 70 percent of the countries on the planet. While a vast majority of those missions involve training the defense forces of partner countries, a few involve direct combat.