Tomorrow’s Radar Raiders

THE BRUNEVAL RAID

Operation Biting (see pages 20-29) was not the last nor the most successful of the raids that took place during World War Two, but its influence remains critical to modern special operations doctrine. The way Biting was conducted was the bedrock on which many subsequent commando and special forces raids were planned.

Consequently, the question is now: if Operation Biting was to happen in the modern day, how would the military and special forces approach such an undertaking? The essential tools of the raid were intelligence, striking hard and fast and, of course, the element of surprise, which, in any modern raids, are still an integral part of planning. Raids against individual static targets still occur and it is not beyond the realms of possibility that something like the Bruneval mission could materialise again in years to come.

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