Putting 100 thousand troops and countless private support personnel on the ground in any given country - sometimes referred to as "nation building" - is a costly strategy. Putting a boot or two on Osama bin Laden's door arguably cost more in political currency - Pakistan wasn't too happy - than actual currency.
Though it was the SEALs who performed that raid in Abbottabad, it's worth noting there are quite a few more SpecOps units in the US than just SEALs - Green Berets and Marine Snipers, etc. - so we here at Business Insider have made things easy by assembling a comprehensive list of all the SpecOps units we could find.
An earlier version of this story was written by Geoffrey Ingersoll.