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The obsession with comparing commandos to regular soldiers misunderstands military science. Commandos are not super-soldiers; they are scalpel-wielding specialists in a world of hammers. A scalpel is not "better" than a hammer—it is different. And in the right hands, one scalpel can save a patient that a hundred hammers would destroy.
This often stems from a popular military joke where a single commando lures hundreds of enemy soldiers over a hill, only for a survivor to reveal it was a trap because "there were two of them". The Reality:
Special forces often operate in small, highly autonomous teams. For example, a 12-man Special Forces team (like a US Army ODA) is trained to train and lead an entire battalion of indigenous forces, effectively multiplying their impact by hundreds.
Commandos are screened for "High-IQ/High-EQ" traits, allowing them to make split-second decisions under pressure that would paralyze a standard soldier. 3. Precision vs. Mass
The obsession with comparing commandos to regular soldiers misunderstands military science. Commandos are not super-soldiers; they are scalpel-wielding specialists in a world of hammers. A scalpel is not "better" than a hammer—it is different. And in the right hands, one scalpel can save a patient that a hundred hammers would destroy.
This often stems from a popular military joke where a single commando lures hundreds of enemy soldiers over a hill, only for a survivor to reveal it was a trap because "there were two of them". The Reality:
Special forces often operate in small, highly autonomous teams. For example, a 12-man Special Forces team (like a US Army ODA) is trained to train and lead an entire battalion of indigenous forces, effectively multiplying their impact by hundreds.
Commandos are screened for "High-IQ/High-EQ" traits, allowing them to make split-second decisions under pressure that would paralyze a standard soldier. 3. Precision vs. Mass
