Paul, in my mind, the W. German military would have seen the need for something like KSK as the T2K (v1.0) Cold War heated up. Especially once folks in the higher levels of the Bundeswehr started kicking around the idea of reunification by coup de main, something like KSK would come really in handy. The difference between IRW and v1.0 timeline dates isn't too great, IMHO, to preclude such an occurance.
Sic1701, SOF of various allied nations routinely train with one another so interoperability wouldn't be that much of a stretch. IIRC, the German GSG9 was pretty much set up in imitation of and conjuction with the SAS (or the latter's counter terrorist sub-units were copied from the GSG9). And by the later stages of the Twilight War, homogenous SOF units would have been suffered considerable attrition. Since SOF training takes a considerable amount of time to do right, it makes sense that operators from various units- including allied units- be pooled together in order to complete the operations at hand. There wouldn't be time to wait until the next batch of freshly trained SEALs showed up from the states. If there were some SBS blokes in the neighborhood, though...
I mean, if you were a SEAL, would you rather work with some replacements that were volunteers from a "local" Marine unit or some proper SBS commandos?
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