Selecting applicants with the highest motivation, modern special forces run special selection processes. Applicants have to fulfil special requirements. His ideas were accepted so also, with some hesitation, was the name Commando.ĭuring World War II, newspaper reports of the deeds of "the commandos" only in the plural led to readers thinking that the singular meant one man rather than one military unit, and this new usage became established.ĭue to the special mental and physiological requirements made of the applicants, there are restrictions entering "commando" units. After the victories of Roberts and Kitchener had scattered the Boer army, the guerrilla tactics of its individual units (which were styled 'Commandos'). Nor was the historical parallel far-fetched. The men for this type of irregular warfare should, he suggested, be formed into units to be known as Commandos. " directly into its Afrikaans' origins: ġ943 Combined Operations ( Min. The Oxford English Dictionary ties the English use of the word meaning " member of a body of picked men. Less likely, it is a High German loan word, which was borrowed from Italian in the 17th century, from the sizable minority of German settlers in the initial European colonization of South Africa. In whose language the word comando means "command". It is also possible the word was adopted into Afrikaans from interactions with the Portuguese in their nearby African colonies,
This term originally referred to units of Boer mounted infantry, who fought during the Xhosa Wars and the First and Second Boer Wars. From the perspective of the early modern era the word stems from the Dutch word kommando, which translates as "a command or order" and also roughly to "mobile infantry regiment". From an ancient lingual perspective the term commando derives from Latin commendare, to recommend.
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