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Operation Bootstrap Operation Bootstrap ("OperaciĂłn Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century. Teodoro Moscoso is referred to as the architect of Operation Bootstrap.
Operation Boptrot Operation Boptrot, also referred to as Boptrot, was an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into corruption among the state of Kentucky's legislature. The operation was highly successful, leading to the conviction of more than a dozen legislators between 1992 and 1995.
Operation British In the fictional Gundam Universe, Operation British was the final culmination of the Principality of Zeon's massive offensive during the opening week of the One Year War. The operation, supposedly named in reference to inpendents of british colonies after World War II, involved the seizure of one of the defunct colonies and its subsequent drop onto earth.
Operation Bulldog III When the Cold War was raging, the defence of Yellowknife was thought to be a major element in the defence of North America had the USSR decided to invade. People thought this because if the Red Army could take over the Yellowknife Airport and hold it, our planes would lose an important place to take off and land in.
Operation Bulldog Mammoth Operation Bulldog Mammoth was a brigade-sized cordon and search of an Abu Ghurayb apartment complex, northwest of Baghdad on December 4, 2003 during the American-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. The operation lasted about five-and-a-half hours and involved approximately 1,450 soldiers.
Operation Bulmus 6 Operation Bulmus 6, also known as the Green Island Raid, was a military raid conducted by special operations units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against an Egyptian early warning radar and ELINT station located on a small island in the Gulf of Suez on the night of July 19, 1969.
Operation Bumblebee (US Navy) Operation Bumblebee was a top-secret, experimental project to develop and test ramjet missiles conducted by the US Navy. Operation Bumblebee started at the end of World War II, and led directly to the deployment of the operational Talos, Terrier, and Tartar missiles.
Operation Bushmaster Operation Bushmaster was the use of infantry units to supplement Military Police patrols of areas surrounding the Panama Canal and other American installations in Panama during the period of tension that culminated in the US Invasion of Panama. These patrols began in December 1987 as a response to increased criminal activity during the period before the American invasion.
Operation Buster-Jangle Operation Buster-Jangle was a series of seven (six atmospheric, one underground) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States in late 1951 at the Nevada Test Site. Buster-Jangle was the first joint test program between the DOD and Los Alamos National Laboratories.
Operation Cajun Fury Operation Cajun Fury, an operation in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, was carried out by members of the US 35th Infantry Division serving with the Illinois National Guard 131st Infantry from 9 July 2004 to 1 August 2005.
Operation Camelot Operation Camelot was an operation run by the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency that funded anthropological research. The research was then used to further the goals of the United States government.
Operation Capital During World War II, Operation Capital, Operation Y, was a broad British offensive launched from Assam, India across the Chindwin River into northeast Burma near Mandalay, launched on 19 November, 1944. The objectives were to clear Japanese forces from northern Burma, reopen the Burma Road supply route to China and tie down Japanese forces to prevent their transfer to the Pacific theatre.
Operation Capri Operation Capri was a German counter-attack at Medenine, Tunisia, intended to disrupt and delay the 8th Army's attack on the Mareth Line. The German attack started on 6 March 1943, failed to make much impression and was abandoned at dusk on the same day.
Operation Cartwheel Operation Cartwheel (1943–1944) was the major military strategy for the Allies in the Pacific theater of World War II. Cartwheel was a twin-axis of advance operation, aimed at militarily neutralizing the major Japanese base at Rabaul.
Operation Castle Operation Castle was a series of high-energy (high-yield) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force SEVEN (JTF-7) at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954. Conducted as a joint venture between the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Department of Defense (DoD), the ultimate objective of the operation was to test designs for an aircraft-deliverable thermonuclear weapon.
Operation Cauldron Operation Cauldron was a secret biological warfare trial undertaken by the British government in 1952. Scientists from Porton Down and the Royal Navy were involved in releasing biological agents, including plague ("agent L") at sea off the coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and testing the effects of the agents on caged animals.
Operation Century Operation Century was the code name for a sting operation for investigating a triple murder at Rettendon (Essex, England) Essex Police in 1995. It was assisted by Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch officers.
Operation Cerberus Operation Cerberus (German: Zerberus after Cerberus the three-headed dog of Greek mythology who guards the gate to Hades) was the name given to the break-out during World War II of the Kriegsmarine's ships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen and a number of smaller ships from Brest to their home bases in Germany via the English Channel.
Operation Clambake Operation Clambake is a website launched in 1996 that publishes mostly critical information about the Church of Scientology. It is owned and maintained by Andreas Heldal-Lund, who views the Church of Scientology and their leadership as an abusive and dangerous cult.
Operation Claret Operation Claret was a long-running series of raids during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, conducted on the island of Borneo by the British Special Air Service and Australian Special Air Service, from June 1964.
Operation Cleanslate During World War II, Operation Cleanslate was the occupation of Russell Island about sixty miles northwest of Guadalcanal by the United States in August, 1942. The Japanese had captured the island in January, 1942.
Operation Clear Area During Post-invasion Iraq, Operation Clear Area was conducted on the night of December 6, 2003 and was a search and seizure operation utilizing vehicle check points. The checkpoints were set up in Central Iraq, between Al Riffa`l and Qalat Sukar, and operated by elements of the Italian Task Force Dimonious, which included the Italian Army regiments Savoia Cavalleria and Lagunari “Serenissima”, as well as marines from the Italian Navy San Marco Battalion.
Operation Clipper During World War II, Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by British XXX Corps (including the American Eighty-fourth Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid November, 1944. Clipper was a part of a wider U.
Operation Cobra Operation Cobra was the codename for the World War II operation planned by United States Army General Omar Bradley to break out from the Normandy area after the previous month's D-Day landings. Cobra was a great success that transformed the high-intensity infantry combat of Normandy into the highly mechanized race across France.
Operation Cockpit Operation Cockpit was a raid by two Allied naval forces (Force 69 and Force 70) totalling twenty-two warships, including two aircraft carriers, on Japanese port and oil facilities on Sabang Island (off the northern tip of Sumatra) on 19 April, 1944.
Operation Coffee Cup Operation Coffee Cup was a campaign conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) during the late 1950s and early 1960s in opposition to the Democrats' plans to extend Social Security to include health insurance for the elderly, later known as Medicare. As part of the plan, doctors' wives would organize coffee meetings in an attempt to convince acquaintances to write letters to Congress opposing the program.
Operation Coldstore Operation Coldstore (sometimes spelled Operation Cold Store) was a security operation conducted by the government of Singapore in February 1963, in which it arrested at least 107 left-wing politicians and trade unionists, many of them were members of the political party Barisan Sosialis and the Singapore Association of Trade Unions (SATU).
Operation Colombo Operation Colombo was an operation undertaken by the DINA (the Chilean secret police) in 1975 that involved the disappearance of political dissidents. At least 119 people are alleged to have been abducted by state forces and later killed in the 1975 secret operation.
Operation Compass Operation Compass was the first major World War II Allied military operation in the Western Desert Campaign. It resulted in British forces pushing across a great stretch of Libya and capturing over 100,000 Italian soldiers with very few casualties of their own.
Operation Completion Operation Completion (OC) is an organization in the United States devoted to supporting the United States military and its operations involved in the development and reconstruction of War on Terrorism combat theatres like Iraq and Afghanistan. One notable fact about Operation Completion is that it is coordinated entirely by young adults between the ages of sixteen and nineteen who are opposed to the "anti-war movement.
Operation Condor 2: The Armour of the Gods Operation Condor 2: The Armour of the Gods (Cantonese: Long xiong hu di) is a 1987 action/adventure comedy film starring Jackie Chan. It was directed by Jackie Chan and Eric Tsang and written by Jackie Chan, John Sheppard and Edward Tang.
Operation Constellation Operation Constellation was the name of one of a number of World War II missions, proposed by Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, in 1943 to take back the Channel Islands from German occupation in World War II. It was never mounted.
Operation Corkscrew During World War II, Operation Corkscrew was the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Pantelleria (between Sicily and Tunisia) on 10 June, 1943. There had been an early plan to occupy the island in late 1940, but this was aborted when the Luftwaffe strengthened the Axis air threat in the region.
Operation Cornflakes Operation Cornflakes was a World War II Office of Strategic Services PSYOP mission in 1944 and 1945 which involved tricking the German postal service into inadvertently delivering enemy propaganda to German citizens through the mail.
Operation Credible Sport Operation Credible Sport, also known as Operation Honey Badger, was a United States military operation plan in late 1980 to rescue the hostages held in Iran using C-130 cargo planes modified with rocket engines. The Credible Sport operation was to follow the dramatic failure of Operation Eagle Claw in which a C-130 Hercules and a Sea Stallion helicopter collided in the Iranian desert, killing 8 servicemen.
Operation Crevice Operation Crevice was a raid launched by metropolitan and local police in England on the morning of 30 March 2004. It was in response to a report indicating cells of terrorists of Pakistani origin were operating in the Thames Valley, Sussex, Surrey and Bedfordshire.
Operation Crossroads Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted by the United States in the summer of 1946. The series consisted of two detonations, each with a yield of 21 kilotons: ABLE detonated at an altitude of 520 feet (158 m) on 1 July 1946; BAKER detonated 90 feet (27 m) underwater on 25 July 1946.
Operation Crossword During World War II, Operation Crossword or Operation Sunrise was a series of secret negotiations conducted in March 1945 in Switzerland between representatives of the Nazi Germany and the USA to arrange a local surrender of German forces in northern Italy. One of the most notable parts of the operation were secret negotiations between Waffen-SS General Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles on March 8 1945 in Zurich.
Operation Culverin Operation Culverin was a planned operation in World War II, in which Allied troops would recapture the northern tip of Sumatra (the present day province of Aceh) from the Japanese. It was never carried out, through lack of resources and because other events made it unnecessary.
Operation Cyber Condition Zebra Operation Cyber Condition Zebra is a network operations campaign conducted by the United States Navy to deny network intrusion and establish an adequate computer network defense posture to provide defense-in-depth and warfighting capability. The operation specifies that perimeter security for legacy networks will deny intrusions and data infiltration, that firewalls will be maintained through risk assessment and formal adjudication of legacy application waiver requests, and that legacy networks will be shut down as quickly a possible after enterprise networks (such as the NMCI) are established.
Operation Cyclone Operation Cyclone was the code name for the US CIA program to arm Islamic mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989. The Program relies heavily on using the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) as an intermediary for funds distribution.
Operation Danny Operation Danny (or Operation Dani, Mivtza Dani in Hebrew) was carried out between the first and second truce of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The objective was to relieve the Jewish population and forces in Jerusalem and to capture Arab territory around Tel Aviv from which attacks on the city were launched.
Operation Dark Winter Operation Dark Winter was the code name for a senior-level bio-terrorist attack simulation conducted on June 22 - 23, 2001. It was designed to carry out a mock version of a covert and widespread smallpox attack on the United States.
Operation Daybreak Operation Daybreak is a 1975 World War II film based on the true story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (see Operation Anthropoid) - starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and shot mostly on location in Prague.
Operation Days of Penitence Fatalities Over 100 people, many of whom were allegedly armed and engaged in combat, can be considered Operation Days of Penitence Fatalities, killed during an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip between September 30, 2004 and October 15, 2004. The actual number is disputed.
Operation Deckhouse Five Operation Deckhouse Five occurred January 6 - January 15, 1967. The operation was conducted by the United States Marine Corps and South Vietnamese Marine Corps forces along the Mekong River Delta, as part of the Vietnam War.
Operation Deep Freeze Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is the codename for a series of US missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. Given the continuing and constant US presence in Antarctica since that date, "Operation Deep Freeze" has come to be used as a general term for US operations in that continent, and in particular for the regular missions to resupply US Antarctic bases, coordinated by the US military.
Operation Dekel Operation Dekel (palm tree), was the largest offensive in the north of Israel during the first and second truce of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was carried out by the Sheva' Brigade, a battalion from the Carmeli Brigade along with some elements from the Golani Brigade between July 8-18.
Operation Deliverance Operation Deliverance was a Canadian Forces military operation initiated in 1992, supported by the United Nations. It turned into a political disaster for the Canadian Forces, causing the disbandment of the Canadian Airborne Regiment and numerous dismissals and resignations along the chain of command up to the Minister of Defence.
Operation Delphin Operation Delphin was an antipartisan operation in Croatia that took place in the timespan of WWII, from 15 November to 1 December 1943. The objective of the mission was to destroy the Partisan elements on the Dalmatian islands off central Dalmatia.
Operation Demetrius Operation Demetrius, or Internment as it is more commonly known, began in Northern Ireland on the morning of Monday, 9 August 1971. Operation Demetrius involved the arrest and internment without charge or trial of people accused of being members of illegal paramilitary groups by the British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Operation Desert Badger Operation Desert Badger was a US plan for response if a pilot was shot down while patrolling the Iraqi no-fly zones. It was designed to disrupt the Iraqis ability to capture the pilot by attacking Saddam's command and control centres in downtown Baghdad.
Operation Desert Scorpion (Iraq 1998) Operation Desert Scorpion was an American response to the crises between the United Nations and Iraq in February of 1998. Sadam Hussein provoked the United Nations by refusing to live up to his obligations to allow full access to his military sites for inspection.
Operation Desert Thrust During Post-invasion Iraq, Operation Desert Thrust was the name given by the First Brigade 1st Infantry Division to their operations in Iraq beginning on their arrival in October 2003. The name seems to have applied to their entire campaign plan for their yearlong deployment.
Operation Desert Thunder Operation Desert Thunder was a response to threats by Iraq's president Saddam Hussein to shoot down U-2 spy planes, and violate the no-fly zone set up over his country. The operation was designed to bring stability to the region by bringing in a military presence during the negotiations between Iraq and the United Nations over weapons of mass destruction.
Operation Dewey Canyon Operation Dewey Canyon was the last major offensive by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It took place from January 22 through March 18, 1969 and involved a sweep of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA)-dominated A Shau Valley by the 9th Marine Regiment reinforced by elements of the 3rd Marine Regiment.
Operation Dingo During the long-running insurrection in Rhodesia, Operation Dingo was a major raid conducted by the Rhodesian Security Forces on 23 November 1977 against camps at Tembue and Chimoio in Mozambique. The camps were used by the ZANLA organization headed by Robert Mugabe.
Operation Dingson During World War II, Operation Dingson was a large operation conducted by about 160 French paratroops (4 SAS) who jumped into Nazi-occupied France near Vannes on the night of 5 June, 1944. They established a base and began to arm and equip members of local resistance fighters.
Operation Diplomat During World War II, Operation Diplomat was an Allied naval training operation. It was executed in March 1944 by the British Eastern Fleet to practice operational procedures that would be used by ships allocated to the British Pacific Fleet.
Operation Displace Operation Displace was a military operation by the South African Defence Force during the South African Border War. It involved the withdrawal of all South African military units from south-eastern Angola during 1989.
Operation Diver Operation Diver was the British codename for their countermeasures against the V-1 flying bomb campaign launched by the German Luftwaffe in 1944 against London and other parts of Britain. Anti-aircraft guns were redeployed in several movements: first in mid-June 1944 from positions on the North Downs to the south coast of England; then a cordon closing the Thames Estuary to attacks from the east.
Operation Dixie Operation Dixie was the name of the post-war campaign by the Congress of Industrial Organizations to unionize industry in the Southern United States, particularly the textile industry. The campaign ran from 1946 to 1953 in 12 Southern states and was undertaken in order to consolidate gains made by the trade union movement in the Northern United States during the war and block the status of the South as a "non-union" low-wage haven to which businesses could relocate.
Operation Downfall Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of Japan at the end of World War II. The operation was canceled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan.
Operation Dracula During World War II, Operation Dracula was the name given to an airborne and amphibious attack on Rangoon by British and Indian forces, part of the Burma Campaign. When it was launched, the Japanese had already abandoned the city.
Operation Dropshot Operation Dropshot was the United States Military code-name for an internal document describing a possible defensive, conventional war with the USSR in the post-WWII period more commonly known as The Cold War. The scenario was devised prior to the development of ICBMs, and even included the note that the entire plan would be invalidated if rocketry became a cheap and effective means of delivering a nuclear weapon.
Operation Dukedom Operation Dukedom was the British search and destroy operation in May, 1945 for the Japanese cruiser Haguro. Haguro had been operating as a supply ship for Japanese garrisons in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal since 1 May 1945.
Operation Dunhill During World War II, Operation Dunhill was an abortive Special Air Service operation which began on 3 August, 1944. The five teams, totaling 59 commandos were to disrupt German activity in advance of the American breakout from Normandy.
Operation Duryodhan Operation Duryodhan (2005) was the code name of a sting operation, which captured on camera eleven members of Parliament of India accepting money to table questions on the floor of the Parliament. Such an incident was proved first time in the history of Republic of India, and probably first time in the world in any nation having a parliamentary form of democracy.
Operation Dwarka Operation Dwarka also known as Operation Somnath was the popular name given to Pakistan Navy's attack on the Indian coastal town of Dwarka on 7 September 1965. This was the first use of a Navy in the Indo-Pakistan Wars.
Operation Dynamo Operation Dynamo (or Dunkirk Evacuation or just "Dunkirk") was the name given to the World War II mass evacuation of Allied soldiers from May 26 to June 4, 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk. British Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay planned the operation and briefed Winston Churchill in the Dynamo Room (a room in the naval headquarters below Dover Castle which contained the dynamo that provided the electricity), giving the operation its name (Holmes 2001:267).
Operation Eagle Assist Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Operation Eagle Assist began on October 9, 2001 after the North Atlantic Council's] [[October 4 decision to operationalize Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, and ended on 2002 May 16. In total, 830 crew members from 13 NATO nations executed 360 operational sorties, totaling nearly 4300 hours, over the skies of the United States in NATO AWACS aircraft.
Operation Eagle Fury Operation Eagle Fury was a military operation led by the United States in Afghanistan involving a brigade of US Army Special Forces, elite members of the 82nd Airborne Division, and loyal Afghani fighters during 2003. The aim of the operation was to corner Taliban fighters and leaders in the Bahgran Valley, located in the mountains of south-east Afghanistan.
Operation Eagle Pull Operation Eagle Pull was the American evacuation by air of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 12, 1975. The plan was developed and refined as Khmer Rouge forces closed in on the Cambodian capital city, starting as early as 1973.
Operation Edelweiss Operation Edelweiss (German: EdelweiĂź, named after the prominent German 1st Mountain Division) was a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus and capture the oil fields of Baku during the Soviet-German War. The operation was authorised by Hitler on July 23, 1942.
Operation Enduring Freedom - Pankisi Gorge The Pankisi Gorge is a region of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, near the border with the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Many of the residents of the Gorge region are ethnically similar to the residents of Chechnya.
Operation Enhance Plus During the Vietnam War, Operation Enhance and Enhance Plus was the emergency transfer of American military supplies and bases to the South Vietnamese government in advance of the cease fire that ended American involvement in the war. Conducted in an intense month-and-half period at the end of 1972.
Operation Entebbe Operation Entebbe, also known as the Entebbe incident, was a rescue mission performed by Sayeret Matkal (the Israeli elite special forces) to free hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. It took place on the night of July 3 and early morning of July 4, 1976.
Operation Epsilon Operation Epsilon was the codename of a program in which Allied forces at the end of World War II detained ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear weapon/power program, at Farm Hall, a wiretapped house in Godmanchester, England (near Cambridge), from May 1 to December, 1945. The goal was to determine how close the Germans had been to constructing an atomic bomb, by listening to their conversations.
Operation Epsom Operation Epsom was a British attack intended to outflank and seize Caen in France during the Battle of Normandy during World War II. It failed but forced the Germans to abandon their offensive plans and tied most of their armoured units to a defensive role.
Operation Europe: Path to Victory Operation Europe: Path to Victory is a multiplatform war game where one or two players can compete in exciting World War II action. The object is the game is to fulfill any one of the military objectives for either Axis or Allied so that progress can be made in the "war that was supposed to end all wars.
Operation Falcon (Federal Dragnet) Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally) was the name of a weeklong dragnet organized by the United States Marshals Service between April 4 and April 10, 2005 (also Crime Victims' Rights Week). A total of 10,340 federal fugitives were arrested in the fifty U.
Operation Falcon (child pornography crackdown) Operation Falcon was a major American investigation of internet child pornography announced on 16 January 2004. Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.
Operation Falcon (USFWS operation) Operation Falcon was a 1982-1984 sting operation conducted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Canadian Wildlife Service to entrap falconers and falcon breeders by using undercover wildlife officers posing as falconers to entice falconers (often law-abiding falconers) to violate either the Migratory Bird Act or federal falconry regulations that were (and still are) highly subject to a wide range of interpretation.
Operation Fall Clouds Operation Fall Clouds is one out of many operations held by Israel against the Palestinians in Beit Hanun, north of the Gaza Strip. During this operation, the firepower of an Israeli tank targeted 19 Palestinians.
Operation Fall Rot During World War II, Fall Rot (Case Red in German) was the second phase of the conquest of France by the German Army, begun on 5 June, 1940. It had been made possible by the success of Operation Fall Gelb in the Battle of France.
Operation Fast Forward Operation Fast Forward was a major test of emergency plans to evacuate large numbers of people from the downtown area of Washington, DC. It was conducted in conjunction with the end of the annual fireworks display on the National Mall on 4 July, 2005.
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (OFP) is a tactical shooter and battlefield simulator game released in 2001. Set on a group of fictitious islands in the year 1985, Operation Flashpoint (OFP) puts the player on one of three sides in a hypothetical conflict between the NATO and Soviet forces led by a renegade general.
Operation Flashpoint: Elite Operation Flashpoint: Elite is a conversion of computer game Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis for the Xbox gaming console, developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio and published by Codemasters in November 2005. Although hailed by many as the best (and possibly only) military simulation available on modern consoles, it was heavily criticized both by players and press to be just about the same game as Operation Flashpoint.
Operation Flavius Operation Flavius was the name given to an operation by a Special Air Service team in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 tasked with neutralising a Provisional IRA cell. The cell's members, Daniel McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell, conspired to detonate a bomb where the band assembled for the weekly changing of the guard at the governor’s residence.
Operation Flax During World War II, Operation Flax was an Allied air operation designed to cut the air supply lines between Italy and the Axis troops in Tunis, in April, 1943 This interdiction operation led to the 18 April “Palm Sunday Massacre” in which the U.S.
Operation Focus Operation Focus (Hebrew: Mivtza Moked) was the opening pre-emptive airstrike by Israel at the start of the Six-Day War of 1967. It is sometimes referred to as "Sinai Air Strike" since the focus was primarily on airfields around Sinai.
Operation Fortitude Operation Fortitude was the codename for the deception operations used by the Allied forces during World War II in connection with the Normandy landings (Operation Overlord). It was divided into Fortitude North, a threat to invade Norway, and Fortitude South, designed to induce the Germans to believe that the main invasion of France would occur in the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy.
Operation FOUNDATION Operation Foundation (aka Task Force Tampa) is a Canadian Forces military operation comprising of seven liaison stationed in Tampa, Florida at United States Central Command (US CENTCOM), as well as in Bahrain. The purpose of the operation is to track and forward intelligence reports, make requests for forces and monitor the activities of other nations involved with US CENTCOM.
Operation Frankton During World War II, Operation Frankton was a British Combined Operations raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour, France in December, 1942, by 12 men of the Boom Patrol Detachment, Royal Navy, in two-man Cockle MK II Canoes. A fictionalised version of the story was later told in the film The Cockleshell Heroes.
Operation Frantic During World War II, Operation Frantic was a series of air raids conducted by American bombers based in Britain or the Mediterranean which then landed at bases built by the Americans in Soviet-controlled Ukraine. This shuttle bombing technique complicated the defense of German targets.
Operation Frantic Joe During World War II, Operation Frantic Joe was the first bombing raid of the Frantic series, conducted on 2 June, 1944. American bombers flew from bases in southern Italy attacking Debrecen en route to Soviet airfields at Focsani.
Operation FrĂĽhlingserwachen The Lake Balaton Offensive (codenamed Operation FrĂĽhlingserwachen, "Spring Awakening"), was the last major planned offensive action by the Germans during World War II. Launched in great secrecy on March 6, 1945, the attack took place in Hungary around the Lake Balaton area, and involved mostly units withdrawn from the failed Ardennes Offensive.
Operation Freakout Operation PC Freakout was the name given by the Church of Scientology to a covert plan undertaken by the Church in 1976, with the goal of harassing Paulette Cooper, author of a book critical of Scientology titled The Scandal of Scientology. The plan came to light when the FBI seized several documents related to Operation Freakout from church offices in Los Angeles in 1977 during the investigation of Operation Snow White.
Operation Freedom Deal Operation Freedom Deal was a US Seventh Air Force interdiction and close air support campaign waged in Cambodia from 19 May 1970 until 15 August 1973, during the Vietnam Conflict. The targets of the operation were the Base Areas and border sanctuaries of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and their Khmer Rouge allies.
Operation Fresco Operation Fresco or Op FRESCO is the codename for the provision of basic emergency cover during the UK Firefighter dispute 2002/2003 by civilian firefighters of the United Kingdom, in late 2003 and early 2004. The response to the industrial action was coordinated by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

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