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SPETSNAZ - SOVIET SPECIAL FORCES

Spetsnaz is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "special purpose forces". The term can specifically refer to any elite or special purpose units under subordination of the Federal Security Service (FSB) or Internal Troops of Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the units controlled by the military intelligence service GRU.

Currently, the term is also used for describing any special purpose units or task forces of other ministries (even the Emergency Situations Ministry special rescue unit).

Foreign special forces are also commonly referred to as Spetsnaz on Russian television, for example "American Spetsnaz."

Spetsnaz specialists have trained the Republican Guard of Syria, Angola, Cuba, Vietnam, Ethiopia and they have been involved in training other special forces units across the world. - Wikipedia

Excerpt from "The Inside Story Of The Soviet Special Forces" by By Viktor Suvorov

DID YOU KNOW...

International law does not recognize special reconnaissance (dropping forces behind enemy lines) as espionage so long as the members of the recon unit retain their uniforms.

Life is full of silly rules. Only in the realm of international law would spying not be spying so long as someone was wearing a coloured costume. Yet we don't have to look that far to see other silly rules. They extend from the laws regarding witchcraft (still on the books in Ontario) to the arcane mathematics that underpin our tax collection. We might even look at something as seemingly commonsense as stop signs and wonder why they are mandatory.

We accept rules in our daily life for a number of good reasons. Car accidents are avoidable so we legislate to avoid them. The redistribution of wealth is a difficult thing and the math reflects that reality. Cooperation and compromise are important if we are going to get anywhere! But during an attack situation, rules are a little less important.

You have to be willing to forgo social convention and do what you need to do in any given moment in order to survive. You need to be 'sneaky' or 'dirty.' Or, to put it in a different way, you need to be 'creative.'

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