Rapid reaction force
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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.
Definition
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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).<ref name="infantrydecipher">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Some can deploy outside their borders and without the need for a large organized support force.<ref name="infantrydecipher"/> Cavalry units are frequently postured as QRFs, with a main mission of security and reconnaissance.<ref name="global security">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> A quick reaction force belongs directly to the commander of the unit it is created from and is typically held in the reserve.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> QRF units can be assigned to an area of operations (AO) or can be associated with a specific operation, for example Neptune Spear, when reserve units were used to support the main force following the crash of a helicopter.
List
Active
Template:Flagicon Argentina: Argentine Rapid Deployment Force
Template:Flagicon Australia: 7th Brigade (Australia)
Template:Flagicon China
- People's Armed Police 1st Mobile Corps
- People's Armed Police 2nd Mobile Corps
- People's Liberation Army Air Force Airborne Corps
- People's Liberation Army Navy Marine Corps
Template:Flagicon Colombia: Rapid Deployment Force
Template:Flagicon Egypt: Egyptian Rapid Deployment Forces
Template:Flagicon Finland: Finnish Rapid Deployment Force
Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon Germany/Netherlands: Rapid Forces Division
Template:Flagicon India: Rapid Action Force
Template:Flagicon Indonesia: Indonesian Air Force Quick Reaction Forces Command
Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon Italy/NATO: NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Italy
Template:Flagicon Japan
Template:Flagicon Malaysia: 10th Parachute Brigade
Template:Flagicon Norway: Norwegian Telemark Battalion
Template:Flagicon Philippines
Template:Flagicon Portugal: Rapid Reaction Brigade
Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon Russia/Soviet Union
Template:Flagicon Singapore: Army Deployment Force
Template:Flagicon South Korea
Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka: Air Mobile Brigade
Template:Flagicon Thailand
- 31st Infantry Regiment
- 3rd Infantry Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
- 1st Infantry Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division
- 1st Infantry Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
- 2nd Infantry Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division
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Template:Flagicon United States
- Military
Multinational
Template:Flagicon European Union
- The European Gendarmerie Force (EUROGENDFOR) serves as a unified intervention force of European militarized police.
- EU Battlegroup
Template:Flagicon NATO
- The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) is a capable of rapidly deploying a NATO headquarters for operations and crisis response.
- The NATO Response Force (NRF) is distinct from ARRC as it comprises land, sea, air, and special forces units.
Defunct
- The European Rapid Operational Force (EUROFOR) was a European rapid reaction force under the European Union and Western European Union, established in 1995 and composed of military units from Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain. EUROFOR was tasked with performing duties outlined in the Petersberg Tasks. EUROFOR deployed to Kosovo from 2000 to 2001, and North Macedonia as part of EUFOR Concordia in 2003. After being converted into an EU Battlegroup, EUROFOR was dissolved in 2012.
- Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Africa
- Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command
Proposed
- Template:Flagicon 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.
- Template:Flagicon 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.
- Template:Flagicon 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:Flagicon 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.