Talk:Rapid deployment force

Rapid Response
Probably unintentional, but the Rapid Response link leads to an album rather than any kind of relevant emergency personnel the article was talking about. That's a bit of a funny mistake to serendipity upon.--47.12.131.9 (talk) 21:27, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Rapid reaction force
"Rapid Reaction Force" (note capitals) redirects here. However there is also a page called "Rapid reaction force" (not capitalised) which deals with the same subject in some detail! Merge? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.144.99.145 (talk) 13:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Examples of Rapid Deployment Forces
Some examples of national rapid deployment-capable forces are listed. My only issue is the criteria for admission onto this list. Some undoubtedly possess a global reach, eg. US' XVIII Corps or the French Foreign Legion. However, others eg. Malaysia's 10 Paratrooper Brigade or Sri Lanka's Air Mobile Brigade, are more questionable. Does it only depend on whether the force has limited airlift/sealift capability and deployability in its own country and the surrounding region? In that case the military units of even the most ill-equipped nations might fit the bill. I'm thinking that is has to be more than that, i.e. true global power projection capability and the means to sustain an extended operation (logistically) halfway around the world.

This would also cohere with the second paragraph, where it is stated that "Rapid Deployment Forces in most militaries are used for deployment outside of their country's borders." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.7.86.117 (talk) 15:13, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

I am removing the 2 REP as an example of a rapid deployment force as this regiment is not specially tasked with being a rapid deployment force. If it were included, there would be no reason not to also include any and all paratrooper regiment from the French Army, or any regiment within the Guépard alert system. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.214.66.150 (talk) 09:48, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Rapid reaction force and Quick reaction force
Looking it up, I actually can't find any differences between a rapid deployment force, rapid reaction force, and quick reaction force. It seems they describe essentially the same thing: a military or police unit that can respond within a short timeframe, usually minutes in a police context and hours to days in a military context. The only real difference I can find is that a quick reaction force is specifically an always-alert unit at a military installation. Yes, I know the lead of this article attempts to establish a difference, but that was just me trying to give the original article (before I edited it) the benefit of the doubt.

I think they could combine like this: we use the lead from rapid reaction force, a section or paragraph for quick reaction force, and the list from rapid deployment force. Which article we'd move it to, I don't know, but rapid reaction force and rapid deployment force seem to be the most common, slightly leaning toward the latter; it could be decided at the flip of a coin, really, though I will note now that the rapid reaction force article is available in 11 languages, while this one is only available in 2.

I was going to just merge these myself, but I wanted some input, in case I'm missing some crucial difference between these three. Well, that and I don't actually know how to merge articles in the first place. AdoTang (talk) 18:30, 4 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I think that :Quick reaction force, Quick responce force, Rapid reaction force are similar concept in the military.
 * Rapid deployment force and Quick maneuver force seems to be little bit different, In this sense, they are specialized in fast deployment outside their country's borders.
 * Anyway, I agreed on merger.
 * It can be described as belows
 * (1) Title: Quick reaction force (Just example, I'm not sure the most common term in English)
 * Quick reaction force, also known as quick responce force, rapid reaction force, rapid deployment force is....
 * Or
 * (2) Title: Quick reaction in the military
 * Section 1 - Quick reaction force
 * Section 2 - Rapid reaction force
 * Section 3 - Rapid deployment force
 * Footwiks (talk) 15:58, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Eh, I was thinking the Rapid deployment force page could be used instead. You're right in that there are some differences, but they're honestly minor enough for them to be on the same page. AdoTang (talk) 16:12, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
 * How about Title: Quick reaction and rapid deployment in the military?
 * then we can describe by types as belows
 * Section 1 - Quick reaction force
 * Section 2 - Rapid reaction force
 * Section 3 - Rapid deployment force
 * Footwiks (talk) 09:05, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
 * "Quick reaction and rapid deployment in the military" seems like a bit of a long title that you'd only ever find if you were specifically searching for an article with that name. "Rapid reaction force" or "Rapid deployment force" work fine. And again, they're all more or less the same thing, and Quick reaction force seems like the only one that would actually need a separate section or paragraph to itself. AdoTang (talk) 01:09, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I have notified WikiProject Military History of this discussion to attract some more input. Felix QW (talk) 14:10, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
 * This is a good initiative. All mean substantially the same thing. As Rapid Deployment Force as often been associated with the US RDF/Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, as a named entity, I would prefer the title be Rapid reaction force, but the layout suggested sounds fine. Also note air forces Quick Reaction Alert. Buckshot06 (talk) 02:07, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Didn't know air forces had that quick reaction alert thing. However, that article seems fairly long on its own, so I guess it can be a separate article with a short section linking to it here. As for the thing about rapid deployment force being American, I mean, the article lists a few that aren't American and still use the terminology. RRF and RDF seem interchangeable, so I don't know. AdoTang (talk) 01:09, 2 June 2023 (UTC)