Talk:Commandos (United Kingdom)

Where does the word 'commando' come from?
Please explain its derivation, and choice for an English-speaking army. 121.44.139.56 (talk) 08:18, 17 January 2015 (UTC)


 * This Commando might help (Msrasnw (talk) 11:17, 17 January 2015 (UTC))

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Lack of balance
In view of its GA status, I'm a bit concerned that this article does not address the scholarly discussion of the role of the Commandos as an essentially propagandistic phenomenon. Alan Allport makes a much more salatory assessment of their military importance in Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 (p 218) and notes that "for much of their existence, the War Office regarded them more as a nuisance than an asset" by absorbing manpower from other formations for costly missions of "questionable" strategic value. At the moment, the article appears rather too engaged with the regimental mystique and does not "address the main aspects of the topic" in WP:GACR#3 and does not "represent viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias" in WP:GACR#4. —Brigade Piron (talk) 09:35, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Royal Naval Commandos
It is less than accurate to describe or limit Royal Naval Commandos to beach control - the duty of the COPPs. RNC were fully qualified commandos who also had [before becoming commando or acquired since] specialised training. Many spent nights in and around Calais in 1943 as part of the pre D Day deceptions - as part of the Med fleet, assisted in amphibious actions - assisted the French Resistance [particularly in Southern France] as radio operators during the internecine squabbles of the Resistance - as solitary radio lookouts in the jungles of Burma. 2A02:C7C:D6B7:AF00:EC8D:DE22:F7FA:F795 (talk) 16:05, 25 May 2023 (UTC)