Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga Brigades
The Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga brigades were decentralized mountain infantry formations that emerged as the dominant Kurdish fighting force during the 1991 uprising and later partnered with U.S. forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Shaped by guerrilla warfare, clan loyalty, and survival after genocide, they combined local terrain mastery with political fragmentation to secure and hold northern Iraq.
Group Rank - 176
Kurdish Peshmerga (Barzani & Talabani Forces)
The Kurdish Peshmerga are the armed forces of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, rooted in guerrilla traditions that emphasize mobility, local loyalty, and survival in mountainous terrain. Historically divided along Barzani (KDP) and Talabani (PUK) party lines, they have fought external threats and internal rivals alike while remaining central to Kurdish autonomy and defense.
Group Rank - 177
Palmach (Haganah Elite Strike Force)
The elite strike force of the Haganah, formed in 1941 to wage guerrilla war through sabotage, night raids, and rapid assaults during the final years of the British Mandate in Palestine. Hardened by scarcity and constant movement, its fighters helped shape the outcome of the 1948 war and left a lasting imprint on Israel’s military culture.
Group Rank - 178
French Fusiliers Marins
The French Fusiliers Marins are naval infantry trained to fight ashore with the discipline of sailors, the endurance of infantry, and a collective refusal to break once committed.
Group Rank - 181
Dutch States Army (Maurician Drill)
A brotherhood forged in revolt, the Dutch States Army turned geometry, discipline, and relentless volleys into the weapon that broke the old world’s battlefield logic.e.
Group Rank - 185
Spanish Guerrilleros
A brotherhood of Spanish Guerrilleros rises from the hills and hollows of Iberia to bleed an empire one ambush at a time.
Group Rank - 186
Russian Grenadiers
Russian Grenadiers advanced like a moving wall of frostbitten resolve, breaking armies through sheer inevitability long after the grenades themselves stopped mattering.
Group Rank - 187
Tang Imperial Guards
The Tang Imperial Guards lived and died as the empire’s steel conscience—glorious in its youth, decadent in its age, and always one heartbeat away from violence.
Group Rank - 189
Danish Jaeger Corps & Frogmen
They moved as if the cold had carved secret truths into their bones, two brotherhoods built to appear where no one should exist and to leave before anyone realized they were there.
Group Rank - 194
Norwegian FSK / Marinejegerkommandoen
The Marinejegerkommandoen move through the world like a cold-water omen, leaving only the hush of their passing behind.
Group Rank - 196
The Polish 1ST Parachute Brigade
Dropped into a doomed battle they didn’t start, the Polish 1st Parachute Brigade fought through smoke, chaos, and betrayal to become the fiercest ghosts of Arnhem.
Group Rank - 197
GROSSDEUTSCHLAND DIVISION
They fought like master craftsmen in a slaughterhouse, carving their legend in steel and smoke while serving a regime that was already rotting beneath their boots.
Group Rank - 198
Irish Ranger Wing / SAS in Ulster
In the end, they were the men who made the darkness blink first. Not knights, not villains—just professionals in a dirty century, paid to make silence possible again.
Group Rank - 200