With the creatiwith the COFS, Defence has acquired a specific tool for the conduct of Special Operations, thereby completing the restructuring that began with the creation of theCOIfor the command of conventional operations. In addition to the Planning Command function in the hands of the Chief of the Defence Staff (SMD), the COFS is a deployable Command, validated by NATO as a command component for Special Operations within the framework of the NRF (NATO Response Force); in recent weeks, the exercise concludedThieving Magpie19 which has seen the employment of COFS and the full spectrum of units of theSpecial Forcesof theArmed Forces.
