During the 1964-79 Rhodesian Bush War the Rhodesian Army created an elite mounted infantry unit called Grey's Scouts to fight unconventional actions against the rebel forces of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo.

The Foreign Legion is today known as an elite military unit whose training focuses not only on traditional military skills but also on its strong esprit de corps.

Following the war, many former German soldiers joined the Foreign Legion to pursue a military career with an elite unit, an option that was no longer possible in Germany.

The SS, initially part of the much larger SA, was formed in 1923 for Hitler's personal protection, and was re-formed in 1925 as an elite unit of the SA.

In September 1927, Himmler told Hitler of his vision to transform the SS into a loyal, powerful, racially-pure elite unit.

The Revolutionary Guard Corps ( Liwa Haris al-Jamahiriya ) or Jamahiriya Guard was a Libyan paramilitary elite unit that played the role of key protection force of the government of Muammar Gaddafi, until his death in October 2011.

At that point, Colonel Ulrich Wegener, Genscher's senior aide and later the founder of the elite German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9, said " I'm sure this will blow the whole affair!

Pakistani forces carried out the final assault ; they were assisted with weapons, logistics and planning by an elite team of French commandos from The French GIGN commando unit.

At five past midnight ( CET ) on 18 October, the plane was stormed in a seven-minute assault by the GSG 9, an elite unit of the German federal police.

The Nazis regarded the SS as an elite unit, the party's " Praetorian Guard ", with all SS personnel ( originally ) selected on the principles of racial purity and loyalty to the Nazi Party.

He fought in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit.

He participated in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit.

In response, an elite paratroop unit was dispatched to Leipzig — almost certainly on Honecker's orders, since he was commander-in-chief of the army.

* Special Presidential Division, an elite Zairean military unit charged with the protection of the president

When he reached the capital, the Excubitors, an elite Imperial guard unit led by Phocas's own son-in-law Priscus, deserted to Heraclius, and he entered the city without serious resistance.

The ROS ( Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale or Special Operational Group ) is an elite unit founded in 1990 to deal with organised crime ( Mafia and others ), subversive activities, terrorism and more complex types of crime.

RAINBOW is a newly created multinational counter-terrorism unit, composed of elite soldiers from NATO countries, formed to address the growing problem of international terrorism.

This unit, which varied in size from 40-90 men, was the elite of the cavalry.

* Emperor Leo I founds the Excubitors ( Imperial Guard ) at Constantinople, this elite tagmatic unit ( 300 men ) is recruited from among the warlike Isaurians ( approximate date ).

Guanghua Gate was defended by Chiang Kai-shek's elite supervisory unit.

The duties of this elite unit match those of its foreign counterparts, such as the United States Army Special Forces, being amongst others Counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency.

The English became the predominant element in the elite Varangian Guard, hitherto a largely Scandinavian unit, from which the emperor's bodyguard was drawn.

New York City also had a Grenadier unit, as did South Carolina-the elite 1st South Carolina Regiment, raised and commanded by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

The county is the unit of structure in elite competition, responsible for organizing club competitions within the county unit and for fielding inter-county teams in the various grades of the All Ireland championships and National Camogie League.

Muzaffarabad is a prime destination for further and higher education for the youth of Azad Kashmir and also produces the elite class of Azad Kashmir such as doctors, engineers, lawyers and businessmen.

Manero produces new genetically engineered creatures ( mutants ) under secret supervision, but when some of these mutants break out and run into the city, the elite security force group HARDCORPS becomes aware of them and it's up to HARDCORPS leader John Blade, who starred as the hero and the player's character in Sin, to set things right.

When an elite unit wins a battle against an enemy unit, there is a small chance that it will produce a Great Leader.

Unique to the Pokanoket was the spiritual and military elite known as the pniese ( Pine E ' See ) who protected and served this Great Leader.

Leader of the elite army unit Obstinate Arrow.

During the famous Battle of Grunwald of 1410, Zyndram was the Grand Camp Leader of the Crown and commander of the Banner of Kraków, composed of elite troops and holding the banner of the whole army.

Pieces in Squad Leader represent regular squads ( rated for firepower, range and morale ), weapon and vehicle crews, elite squads ( with high firepower and morale but shorter range-used to represent paratroops or combat engineers armed with sub-machine guns ), individual leaders, support weapons, and vehicles.

" While the Islamic Republic would " grudgingly allowed allegorical criticism read by an elite ," it took punitive action when the criticism became widely popular, when citizens disobeyed orders to stop protest and finally when they wrote " open letters to newspapers questioning the Supreme Leader.

Other researchers see these motifs as part of a more generalized Puebloan style and / or spiritual significance, rather than evidence of a continuing specific elite socioeconomic system.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

This oppression by an elite minority eventually led to slave revolts ( see Roman Servile Wars ); the Third Servile War led by Spartacus being the most famous and severe.

Those made up of the elite are best known as gentlemen's clubs ( not to be confused with strip clubs ) and country clubs ( though these also have an athletic function, see below ).

A subject is an individual subjected to the rule by an elite, see feudalism

* Barrow's Boys-Fergus Fleming ( 1998 ) " For 30 years beginning 1816, the British Admiralty's John Barrow and his elite team charted large areas of the Arctic, discovered the North Magnetic Pole, were the first to see volcanoes in the Antarctic, crossed the Sahara to find Timbuktu and the mouth of the Niger-John Ross, John Franklin, William Edward Parry and others.

Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi, which became established as the prestige dialect ( see Nuosu language ).

National sovereignty can be contrasted, on the one hand, to absolutism and to other doctrines that see sovereignty as residing solely in a monarch, aristocracy, theocracy or other small elite, and on the other hand to popular sovereignty, which has more egalitarian implications.

While the average elite female gymnast is still in her middle to late teens and of below-average height and weight, it is also common to see gymnasts competing well into their twenties.

The Arabs, especially the urban elite, see and understand what we are doing and what we wish to do on the land, but they keep quiet and pretend not to notice anything.

Many examples were planted, as ' rarities ', in Britain and America, wherever elite gardens were extensive enough for tree collections ( see Arboretum ).

Piper played a drifter turned saviour of the human race after discovering a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the world's elite for what they truly are, money hungry aliens with a new-world-order-like agenda.

It has also been argued based on placename studies that the older language of the area, though apparently Indo-European, was not Celtic ( see Nordwestblock ) and that Celtic, though influential amongst the elite, might never have been the main language of the part of the Belgic area north of the Ardennes.

For an interesting application of the new institutional approach see Terry Karl ( 1990 ), which portrays institutions as constraining elite actors ' preferences and policy choices during transition.

His performances during the season were enough to see him return to the elite top 16 in the world rankings for the first time since 2006, meaning he would no longer need to play qualifying matches to reach the main stage of the ranking events.

The glass ceiling metaphor has often been used to describe invisible barriers (" glass ") through which women can see elite positions but cannot reach them (" ceiling ").

According to Roger Scruton, " Learning that his wife had been conducting a passionate affair with Vita ( to the enraged jealousy of Vita ’ s other lover, Virginia Woolf ), Campbell began to see the three aspects of the new elite — sexual inversion, anti-patriotism, and progressive politics — as aspects of a single frame of mind.

It is argued furthermore that the older language of the area, though apparently Indoeuropean was not Celtic ( see Nordwestblock ) and therefore that Celtic, though influential amongst the elite, might never have been the language of the area where the Eburones lived.

To see if ‘ accumulation of advantage ’ was operating in the career development of the scientific elite, Zuckerman compared the careers of future laureates with those of “ members of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the scientific rank and file ” along a number of dimensions including socioeconomic origins, status of undergraduate and graduate education, the process of moving into the scientific elite, and first jobs and professorships.

The elite see themselves as inherently superior, and view the underclass as amoral, ruthless, and dispensable.

Marcel Saupin died on 10 June and would never see the club he created amongst the elite.

It is still very common in smaller high schools to see top players play two or even three ways ( offense, defense and special teams ), in multiple positions, but in college and pro ball, where rosters are larger and the talent pool is more elite, the injury risk outweighs potential benefits.