Special forces have been used in both wartime and peacetime military operations such as the Laotian Civil War , Bangladesh Liberation War-1971 , Vietnam War , Portuguese Colonial War , South African Border War , Falklands War , The Troubles in Northern Ireland , the Jaffna University Helidrop , the first and second Gulf Wars , Afghanistan , Croatia , Kosovo , Bosnia , the first and second Chechen Wars , the Iranian Embassy siege ( London ) , the Air France Flight 8969 ( Marseille ) , Operation Defensive Shield , Operation Khukri , the Moscow theater hostage crisis , Operation Orchard , the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis ( Lima ) , in Sri Lanka against the LTTE , and the raid on Osama Bin Laden 's compound in Pakistan
Japanese Embassy hostage crisis
Japanese embassy hostage crisis
Special forces