The war in Afghanistan was "won"

by less than five hundred members of

the British and American Special Forces

and CIA agents, in only forty-nine days

from the time they landed in Afghanistan

until the fall of Kandahar, signaling

the end of the Taliban regime.

This was the first time that a conventional

war was won thanks to the action

of a few hundred commandos.

And the other coalition Special Forces

also played important roles, especially

the British SAS and SBS, but also

their Australian counterparts, as well as

commandos from northern Europe :

Norwegians, Danes and Germans.

Although the French Special Forces teams

were absent at the beginning, they

landed in Afghanistan to fight along side

the coalition forces during the summer

of 2003.