De oppresso liber, the Glossary
De oppresso liber is the motto of the United States Army Special Forces.[1]
Table of Contents
28 relations: Aaron Bank, America's Response Monument, Augustine of Hippo, Blackwater (company), Colonel, Conventional warfare, Douwe Blumberg, France, French Resistance, Isaiah, Joe Biden, John F. Mulholland Jr., Nazism, Office of Strategic Services, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Jedburgh, Private citizen, September 11 attacks, Taliban, The Washington Times, Unconventional warfare (United States), United States Army, United States Army Special Forces, United States Army Special Operations Command, Wall Street, Wehrmacht, World War II, 200 Liberty Street.
- Military mottos
- Special Operations Forces of the United States
Aaron Bank
Aaron Bank (November 23, 1902 – April 1, 2004) was a United States Army colonel who founded the US Army Special Forces, commonly known as the "Green Berets".
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America's Response Monument
America's Response Monument, subtitled De Oppresso Liber, is a life-and-a-half scale bronze statue in Liberty Park overlooking the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.
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Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
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Blackwater (company)
Academi, formerly known as Blackwater and Blackwater Worldwide, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1996, by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince.
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Colonel
Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.
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Conventional warfare
Conventional warfare is a form of warfare conducted by using conventional weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation.
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Douwe Blumberg
Douwe Blumberg (pronounced "Dow", born January 30, 1965) is a bronze sculptor who is most well known for his statue of a special forces soldier on horseback commemorating Special Forces operations in Afghanistan during the opening days of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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French Resistance
The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.
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Isaiah
Isaiah (or; יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Yəšaʿyāhū, "Yahweh is salvation"; also known as Isaias or Esaias from Ἠσαΐας) was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
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John F. Mulholland Jr.
Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland Jr. (born 1955) is a retired senior officer who served in the United States Army and is the former Associate Director for Military Affairs (ADMA) at the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Nazism
Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
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Office of Strategic Services
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II.
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Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism.
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Operation Jedburgh
Operation Jedburgh was a clandestine operation during World War II in which three-man teams of operatives of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the Free French Bureau central de renseignements et d'action ("Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations") and the Dutch and Belgian armies in exile were dropped by parachute into occupied France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Private citizen
A private citizen is someone who does not have an official or professional role in a given situation.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Taliban
The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.
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The Washington Times
The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on national politics.
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Unconventional warfare (United States)
In US military doctrine, unconventional warfare (abbreviated UW) is one of the core activities of irregular warfare.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Army Special Forces
The United States Army Special Forces (SF), colloquially known as the "Green Berets" due to their distinctive service headgear, is the special operations branch of the United States Army.
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United States Army Special Operations Command
The United States Army Special Operations Command (Airborne) (USASOC) is the command charged with overseeing the various special operations forces of the United States Army.
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Wall Street
Wall Street is a street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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200 Liberty Street
200 Liberty Street, formerly known as One World Financial Center, is one of four towers that comprise the Brookfield Place complex in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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See also
Military mottos
- Awake iron!
- De oppresso liber
- Faugh A Ballagh
- Honi soit qui mal y pense
- Honneur et Fidélité
- In Treue fest
- List of United States Armed Forces unit mottoes
- List of military unit mottoes by country
- Per ardua ad astra
- Quis separabit?
- Semper Gumby
- Semper fidelis
- Semper paratus
- Serve the People
- Who Dares Wins
Special Operations Forces of the United States
- AN/PEQ-1 SOFLAM
- Alamo Scouts
- Beach Jumpers
- De oppresso liber
- Hatchet Force
- Intelligence Support Activity
- Joint Communications Unit
- Joint terminal attack controller
- List of United States Navy SEALs
- List of former United States special operations units
- Long-range reconnaissance patrol
- M303 Special Operations Forces demolition kit
- Michael D. Healy
- Mobile Guerrilla Force
- Project DELTA
- Reconnaissance Projects
- Red Cell
- Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force
- Special Forces Association
- Special Operations Forces Liaison Element
- Special mission unit
- TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook
- The Green Berets (book)
- United Nations Partisan Infantry Korea
- United States Army Special Forces in popular culture
- United States Navy SEAL selection and training
- United States Navy SEALs
- United States military divers
- United States special operations forces