- State affiliation · Mali
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Mali.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
Mali's special-forces battalion, created in 2018 with its own training centres and recruited across the services — the state's one special- operations formation, whose role in the 2023–2026 campaigns is reported rather than documented.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Record state
- Stub
About this record
Stub — a structured placeholder meeting the public-stub threshold: name, place in the force tree, broad role, and a dated status. A full profile follows source review.
Lineage & institutional history
Formal parent institution: Created by decree on 16 May 2018 under the armed forces' general staff; filed under the army because its personnel and its operations are the army's, and the general staff has no record in this atlas.
Assessed as of2026-06
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