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Special Operations Groups (Spain)

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The Special Operations Groups (Grupos de Operaciones Especiales, GOE) are the special operations forces of the Spanish Army. [1]

23 relations: A Coruña, Alicante, Almogavars, Army, Barcelona, Battle of San Marcial, Battle of Valencia (1808), Burgos, Counter-insurgency, Granada, Grupo Especial de Operaciones, Guerrilla warfare, Las Palmas, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Spanish Army, Special forces, Special Operations Command (Spain), Tenerife, Unidad de Operaciones Especiales, United States Army Rangers, 19th Special Operations Group "Maderal Oleaga".

A Coruña

A Coruña (is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second most populated city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña is a busy port located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It provides a distribution point for agricultural goods from the region.

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Alicante

Alicante, or Alacant, both the Spanish and Valencian being official names, is a city and port in Spain on the Costa Blanca, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí, in the south of the Valencian Community.

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Almogavars

Almogavars (almogávares, almugávares, almogàvers and almogávares) is the name of a class of soldier from many Christian Iberian kingdoms in the later phases of the Reconquista, during the 13th and 14th centuries.

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Army

An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine)) or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on land.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

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Battle of San Marcial

The Battle of San Marcial was a battle fought during the Peninsular War on 31 August 1813.

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Battle of Valencia (1808)

The First Battle of Valencia was an attack on the Spanish city of Valencia on 26 June 1808, early in the Peninsular War.

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Burgos

Burgos is a city in northern Spain and the historic capital of Castile.

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Counter-insurgency

A counter-insurgency or counterinsurgency (COIN) can be defined as "comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to simultaneously defeat and contain insurgency and address its root causes".

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Granada

Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

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Grupo Especial de Operaciones

The Grupo Especial de Operaciones (Special Operations Group), commonly known as GEO (pronounced), is the Police Tactical Unit of the Spanish Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (National Police Corps).

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

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Las Palmas

Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a city and capital of Gran Canaria island, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Palma de Mallorca

Palma de Mallorca, frequently used name for the city of Palma, is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish Army

The Spanish Army (Ejército de Tierra; "Army of the Land/Ground") is the terrestrial army of the Spanish Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations.

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Special forces

Special forces and special operations forces are military units trained to conduct special operations.

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Special Operations Command (Spain)

The Special Operations Command (Mando de Operaciones Especiales) is the command charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Groups (Grupos de Operaciones Especiales or GOE) of the Spanish Army.

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Tenerife

Tenerife is the largest and most populated island of the seven Canary Islands.

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Unidad de Operaciones Especiales

The Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (Special Operations Unit – UOE) was the elite special operations force of the Spanish Navy and marines from 1967 to 2009.

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United States Army Rangers

The United States Army Rangers are designated U.S. Army Ranger units, past or present, or are graduates of the U.S. Army Ranger School.

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19th Special Operations Group "Maderal Oleaga"

The 19th Special Operations Group "Caballero Legionario Maderal Oleaga" (Spanish:Grupo de Operaciones Especiales "Caballero Legionario Maderal Oleaga" XIX), GOE XIX, is one of the 4 currently existing Special Operations Groups and so is subordinated to the Special Operations Command.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Groups_(Spain)

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