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A rapid deployment force (RDF) is a military formation that is capable of fast deployment outside their country's borders. They typically consist of well-trained military units (special forces, paratroopers, marines, etc.) that can be deployed fairly quickly or on short notice, usually from other major assets and without requiring a large organized support force immediately.
The ARRC was created on 1 October 1992 in Bielefeld based on the former I (British) Corps (I (BR) Corps). [2] It was originally created as the rapid reaction corps sized land force of the Reaction Forces Concept that emerged after the end of the Cold War, with a mission to redeploy and reinforce within Allied Command Europe (ACE) and to conduct Petersberg missions out of NATO territory.
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance is a 1985 book on everyday forms of rural class conflict as illustrated in a Malaysian village, written by anthropologist James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press.
Grupo de Acción Rápida (GAR, Rapid Action Group) – "Tier 2" special forces unit formerly focused on counter-terrorism in rural areas, now multipurpose. National Police Corps of Spain Grupo Especial de Operaciones (GEO, Special Operations Group) – "Tier 1" special forces unit for counter-terrorism and hostage rescue among other critical tasks.
The Joint Rapid Reaction Force (JRRF) was a capability concept of the British Armed Forces from 1999 to 2010. It was a pool of specialised units from all three armed services tasked with rapid deployment worldwide at short notice. The force was intended to be capable of mounting operations up to medium scale warfighting.
In the 2000s, the Global Response Force (GRF) was created as a pooled reserve of CONUS-based military assets that could be used to rapidly reinforce one of the Unified Combatant Commands in the event of an emergent threat to American interests within a command's geographic area of responsibility. [1]
Immediate action rapid deployment (IARD) or rapid deployment, is a police tactic where first responders, typically regular police officers, actively confront a developing high-risk crisis. This is opposed to first responders acting to assemble a cordon around the crisis zone [ 1 ] and then waiting for specialized special response units to ...
Initial Follow On Forces Group (IFFG): High-readiness forces that can deploy following the VJTF in response to a crisis. Response Forces Pool (RFP) : A broad spectrum of military capabilities encompassing command and control, combat forces, and support units, drawn from the national forces of NATO members and non-member allies.