In 1941, a British officer named David Stirling had a radical idea..

But the British military didn’t take him seriously.

So what did he do? He broke into his own army’s headquarters in Cairo to pitch his idea directly to a general.

That’s how the SAS was born (bookmark this): pic.twitter.com/JMo8QPNf4k

— Humble Flow (@HumbleFlow) March 2, 2025