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A rapid reaction force / rapid response force (RRF), quick reaction force / quick response force (QRF), immediate reaction force (IRF), rapid deployment force (RDF), or quick maneuver force (QMF) is a military unit capable of responding to emergencies in a very short time frame.
A quick reaction force (QRF) is an armed military unit capable of rapidly responding to developing situations. They are equipped to respond to any type of emergency within a short time frame, sometimes only a few minutes, based on unit standard operating procedures (SOPs). [1] Some can deploy outside their borders and without the need for a large organized support force. [1] Cavalry units are frequently postured as QRFs, with a main mission of security and reconnaissance. [2] [3] A quick reaction force belongs directly to the commander of the unit it is created from and is typically held in the reserve. [4]
Argentina: Argentine Rapid Deployment Force
China
Colombia: Rapid Deployment Force
Egypt: Egyptian Rapid Deployment Forces
Finland: Finnish Rapid Deployment Force
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Germany/Netherlands: Rapid Forces Division
India: Rapid Action Force
Indonesia: Indonesian Air Force Quick Reaction Forces Command
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Italy/NATO: NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Italy
Japan
Malaysia: 10th Parachute Brigade
Norway: Norwegian Telemark Battalion
Philippines
Portugal: Rapid Reaction Brigade
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Russia/Soviet Union
Singapore: Army Deployment Force
South Korea
Sri Lanka: Air Mobile Brigade
Thailand
United Kingdom
United States
European Union
NATO
The European Rapid Reaction Force (ERRF) was the intended result of the Helsinki Headline Goal. Though many media reports suggested the ERRF would be a European Union army, the Helsinki Headline Goal was little more than headquarters arrangements and a list of theoretically available national forces for a rapid reaction force. The Joint Rapid Reaction Force (JRRF) was a British Armed Forces capability concept created in 1999. The force was composed of units from all three branches of the British military, and was able to rapidly deploy anywhere in the world at short notice. However, the War in Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq siphoned British personnel and equipment, leaving the JRRF with insufficient forces. The JRRF was succeeded by the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force in 2010 and the Joint Expeditionary Force in 2014.
The concept of a United Nations rapid reaction force was proposed in the mid-1990s by several commentators and officials, including Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. The UN rapid reaction force would consist of personnel stationed in their home countries, but they would have the same training, equipment, and procedures, and would conduct joint exercises. The force would remain at high readiness at all times so as to quickly deploy them where necessary. [5] The Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF) was a former United States Department of Defense joint task force. It was formed in 1979 as the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF), envisioned as a mobile force that could quickly deploy U.S. forces to any location outside the usual American deployment areas of Western Europe and East Asia, soon coming to focus on the Middle East. It was inactivated in 1983 and reorganized as the United States Central Command.
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