On the night of June 5, 1944, as tens of thousands of Allied troops prepared to storm the beaches of Normandy, a handful of British Special Air Service commandos were parachuting into Nazi-occupied ...
Following a new agreement between the United Kingdom and Norway, the presence of British commandos in the Arctic—formerly a periodic deployment for training exercises—will now be made permanent.
British Royal Marines have been leading a five-week amphibous-warfare course for Ukrainian marines. As of August, some 900 Ukrainian troops, ranging from veterans to new recruits, had done the course.