List of defunct special forces units


Australia
;Japanese Special Attack Units
;Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
;Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
;Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
;Abwehr- units later reassigned to Wehrmacht after expanding to divisional size:
;Wehrmacht from 1943- 1945
HQ staff at Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg
;Kriegsmarine
;Luftwaffe
;Waffen-SS
Second Polish Republic
Polish government-in-exile
Polish Underground State
Polish People's Republic
;British Army
;Royal Air Force
;Royal Marines
;Royal Navy
;Combined Operations
;Directorate of Military Intelligence
;Other
;The Civil War
;World War II
;Korean War
;Vietnam War
;Other
At its peak there were 22 ARVN Ranger Battalions organized in 10 Groups.
Additionally, during the Vietnamization of the CIDG and MIKE Forces, former CIDG units were namely given Ranger status and organized into groups mostly of 3 battalions each, but they were largely local forces without any special forces capabilities.
South Vietnamese Special Forces , later reformed as South Vietnamese Special Mission Service
ARVN SEALs