What a coincidence! I binge watched all 6 just last night! Finished at 1-30am!
Good storyline of course based on the truth of how a bunch of misfit, problematic and indisciplined soldiers were motivated and turned into the scourge of the axis army in North Africa (before evolving ultimately to become a fighting force admired and feared in equal measures across the globe) but with a rather over cavalier atmosphere. ID secrecy was a also part of the legend. A bit less James Bond and a bit more Callan would have been better imo.
I'd read years ago that the only training for parachute landings they had involved jumping backwards off lorries travelling at 30mph across desert roads and the number of broken ankles that ensued from it!
'no rules' of engagement became their trademark as few prisoners were ever taken during sas operations. We witnessed this first hand with the Iranian embassy siege and the Falkland's plus number of operations in Northern Ireland with what were effectively summary executions of its members at loughall police station and Gibraltar. I've read that the Force the ira feared most was the sas who effectively played to the same rules of combat (none) as the ira. St Margaret wisely put them into NI and the troubles would imo have been ended much quicker if only she had been able to resist international political pressure from the sympathisers in the eu and the USA to stand them down.
I've heard that the British army (with the SAS being named) have been in the Ukraine since the annex of crimea in 2014 training the Ukraine forces in tactical modern warfare against superior numbers which may go some way to explaining how Putin's invasion has stalled.
Winning a war is a messy job but somebody has to do it!