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Operation FRICTION Operation FRICTION was the Canadian Forces military operation contribution of 4,500 troops to the Gulf War of 1991. The Canadian military also ordered two destroyers: HMCS Terra Nova and HMCS Athabaskan to enforce the trade blockade against Iraq at the time.
Operation Galaxia Operation Galaxia (Spanish Operación Galaxia) was the codename given to the plan previous to the 23-F attempted coup d'etat in Spain. It was named Galaxia, because the officers who took part met in Cafetería Galaxia in Madrid (now, Van Gogh Café), on November 11, 1978.
Operation Gambit During World War II Operation Gambit was a part of Operation Neptune, the landing phase of the invasion of northern France (Overlord). Gambit involved two X class submarines (British midget submarines) which marked the extreme left and right limits of the British and Canadian invasion beaches with navigation lights and flags off 'Sword' and 'Juno' beaches.
Operation Gatekeeper Operation Gatekeeper was a Clinton-era security operation on the United States–Mexico border near San Diego, California. According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the goal of Gatekeeper was "to restore integrity and safety to the nation's busiest border.
Operation Gauntlet During World War II, Operation Gauntlet was a Combined Operations raid by Canadian Infantry, British Commandos and Norwegian servicemen on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, 600 miles south of the North Pole, from 18 August, 1941, over several weeks.
Operation Gericht Operation Gericht was the code name for the German plan at Verdun, designed by German military General von Falkenhayn. The Battle of Verdun was one of the two greatest infantry battles of World War I, an exclusively Franco-German struggle lasting 10 months and tallying over 700,000 casualties between both sides.
Operation Gibraltar Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by Pakistan to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir, India and start a rebellion. Launched in August 1965, Pakistan Army soldiers and guerrillas disguised as locals entered Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan with the intention of fomenting an insurgency among Kashmiri Muslims.
Operation Gladio Gladio (Italian, from Latin gladius, the sword of the gladiators) is a code name denoting the clandestine NATO "stay-behind" operation in Italy after World War II, intended to counter a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe. Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organisations, Operation Gladio is the code name for all stay-behind organisations.
Operation Gold Operation Gold (also known as Operation Stopwatch by the British) was a joint operation conducted by the American CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service to tap into landline communication of the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin using a tunnel into the Soviet-occupied zone. This was a much more complex variation of the earlier Operation Silver project.
Operation Goldeneye Operation Goldeneye was an Allied plan during World War II, that monitored Spain after the Spanish Civil War. The goal was to ensure that Britain would still be able to communicate with Gibraltar in the event Spain joined the Axis Powers.
Operation Good Guys Operation Good Guys (OGG) is a 1997 British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords. But things are not quite what they seem...
Operation Gothic Serpent Operation Gothic Serpent was a military operation conducted by special operations forces of the United States with the primary mission of capturing General Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The operation took place in Somalia, Africa from August to October 1993 and was supervised by the Joint Special Operations Command.
Operation Grand Slam Operation Grand Slam is virtually synonymous with the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War. It refers to an audacious plan drawn up by the Pakistani Army, in May 1965, to attack the vital Akhnoor Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir, which was not only the lifeline of an entire infantry division in Jammu and Kashmir but could also be used to threaten Jammu, an important logistical point for Indian forces.
Operation Grapes of Wrath Operation Grapes of Wrath (Hebrew: מבצע ענבי זעם) is the Israeli Defense Forces code-name (Hezbollah calls it April War) for a sixteen-day military blitz against Lebanon in 1996 in an attempt to end shelling of Northern Israel by Hezbollah. Israel conducted more than 1,100 air raids and extensive shelling (some 25,132 shells).
Operation Grapple Operation Grapple, and operations Grapple X, Grapple Y and Grapple Z, were series of British nuclear testing operations which sought to test a hydrogen bomb. The operations were conducted from 1956 to 1958 at Christmas Island (now Kiritimati) and Malden Island.
Operation Gratitude Operation Gratitude is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, all-volunteer corporation that assembles and ships care packages to United States service members deployed overseas. Its mission is to lift morale, put a smile on a service member's face and express the appreciation of the American people for the sacrifices of the men and women defending our freedom.
Operation Green (Ireland) Operation Green (Unternehmen Grün in German) often also referred to as Fall Grün (Case Green) or Plan Green ("Plan Grün"), was a fullscale operations plan for the invasion of the island of Ireland in support of Operation Sealion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German).Please note that Operation Green is often confused with an operation given the same title Case Green (Fall Grün in German).
Operation Greenhouse Operation Greenhouse was the fifth American nuclear test series, the second conducted in 1951 and the first to test principles that would lead to developing thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs). Conducted at the new Pacific Proving Ground, all of the devices were mounted in large steel towers, to simulate air bursts.
Operation Greif Operation Greif was a special false flag operation commanded by the notorious Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the Battle of the Bulge. The operation was the brainchild of German dictator Adolf Hitler, and consisted of using specially-trained German soldiers in captured Allied uniforms and vehicles to cause confusion in the rear of the Allied defense.
Operation Greif (game) Operation Greif was a supplement to the Avalon Hill board game Battle of the Bulge. It added new rules and provided a colorful set of unit counters, uncut and printed on thin cardstock, which were to be used with the original map.
Operation Greylord Operation Greylord was an FBI investigation of judicial corruption in Cook County, Illinois, in the 1980s. 92 people were indicted, including 17 judges, 48 lawyers, 8 policemen, 10 deputy sheriffs, 8 court officials, and 1 state legislator.
Operation Hailstone Operation Hailstone was a massive naval air and surface attack launched on 17 February and 18 February, 1944, during World War II by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the Carolina Islands, a pre-war Japanese territory. Truk was a major Japanese logistical base as well as the operating "home" base for the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet.
Operation Hammer A Los Angeles Police Department CRASH initiative that began in April 1987, Operation Hammer was a large scale attempt to crack down on gang violence in Los Angeles. After a group of people at a birthday party were shot down on their front lawn in a drive-by shooting, Chief of Police Daryl F.
Operation Harpune In World War II, Operation Harpune was the major German deception plan of 1941. This operation portrayed the so-called Operation Seelowe ("Sealion") as inevitable, to conceal preparations for the invasion of the Soviet Union, called Operation Barbarossa.
Operation Herbstreise During World War II, Operation Herbstreise (Autumn Journey in German) was a planned series of deception operations to support the planned German invasion of the British Isles (Operation Seelöwe). It would have involved an empty convoy of large transports threatening the east coast of England while the actual invasion force in small barges hit the southern coast.
Operation Herkules During World War II, Operation Herkules was the German plan for an airborne invasion of Malta with General Kurt Student in command of 2 airborne divisions, one being the Italian 2nd Parachute Division. The concept was approved at a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on 29 April - 30 April, 1942.
Operation Herrick Operation Herrick is the codename under which all British operations in the war in Afghanistan have been conducted since 2002. It consists of the British contribution to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and support to the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF).
Operation Highjump Operation Highjump (OpHjp), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-47, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctica under the command of Richard Cruzen, which was launched on 26 August 1946 and lasted until 1947.
Operation Hiram Operation Hiram, possibly also known as the Battle of Sa'sa', was a military operation conducted by the Israel Defence Force (IDF) during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War It was led by Moshe Carmel and aimed at capturing the entire Galilee region for Israel. The operation, which lasted just 60 hours (October 29-October 31) ended just before the ceasefire with the neighboring Arab countries went into effect.
Operation Horev During the Israeli War of Independence in October 1948, Operation Horev was a wide scale attack against the Egyptian army in the Western Negev. The operation started on December 22, 1948 and ended on January 7, 1949, with the Israeli Defence Forces putting foot into the Sinai peninsula.
Operation Horseshoe Operation Horseshoe (German: Hufeisenplan) was the name given by the German government to an alleged Serbian plan to expel the entire Albanian population of Kosovo. It was cited in support of NATO's bombing campaign during the Kosovo War.
Operation Hump On 5 November 1965 the 173rd Airborne Brigade initiated "Operation Hump", a search and destroy in an area about 15 miles north of Bien Hoa. The 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, deployed south of the Dong Nai River while the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry, conducted a helicopter assault on a LZ northwest of the Dong Nai and Song Be Rivers.
Operation Hurricane (1944) Operation Hurricane was a joint RAF Bomber Command and the USAAF VIII Bomber Command operation during October 1944 to "demonstrate to the enemy in Germany generally the overwhelming superiority of the Allied Air Forces in this theatre"References Campaign diary: October 1944
Operation Chahar Operation Chahar, known by the Japanese as チャハル作戦, Operation Quhar and by the Chinese as the 长城抗战 (Battle of the Great Wall), this campaign occurred in August 1937 following the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Operation Chaos (Palestine) A term used for the perceived attempt by British Mandatory authorities in Palestine to prevent the orderly transfer of power to both the proposed United Nations Corpus separatum of Jerusalem and the Jewish State authorized by the 1947 partition plan.
Operation Chastity During World War II, Operation Chastity was a plan for the construction of an artificial harbor (called a “Mulberry”) in Quiberon Bay, France to support Allied operations in Northern France in 1944. Never executed.
Operation ChavĂ­n de Huantar Operation ChavĂ­n de Huantar was the name given to a military operation and to its team of hundred and forty commandos of the Peruvian Armed Forces who ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis by raiding the Japanese ambassador's residence to free hostages being held by the TĂşpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA).
Operation Checkmate Operation Checkmate was an anti-insurgency operation carried out by the IPKF against the LTTE in the Vadamarachi areaof northern Sri Lanka in June 1988. Intiated immediately prior to the elections in the North eastern provinces, the aim of the operation was to destroys the Tigers' capacity to hinder the electoral process, which they had called to boycott.
Operation Chengiz Khan Operation Chengiz Khan was the code name assigned to the pre-emptive strikes carried out by the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) on the forward airbases and radar installations of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on the evening of 3 December 1971 and marked the formal initiation of hostilities of the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. Mounted in three waves between 17:39 and 23:00 hrs, the strikes were targeted against Indian Airbases of Amritsar, Ambala, Agra, Awantipur, Bikaner, Halwara, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Pathankot, Srinagar and Uttarlai as well as against air defence radars at Amritsar and Faridkot.
Operation Chronicle During World War II, Operation Chronicle was the Allied invasion of Woodlark and Kiriwina Islands in the South Pacific as part of Operation Cartwheel. An early planning name for this operation was Operation Coronet.
Operation CHAOS Operation CHAOS was a domestic espionage project conducted by the CIA. A department within the CIA was established by President Lyndon Johnson which then came to be known as the Domestic Operations Division (DOD).
Operation Igloo White Operation Igloo White was a covert United States Air Force electronic warfare operation conducted from late 1968 until 1972, during the Vietnam Conflict. This state-of-the-art operation utilized electronic sensors, computers, and communications relay aircraft in an attempt to automate intelligence collection.
Operation Inmate During World War II Operation Inmate was the bombardment of Japanese bases on Truk in the Caroline Islands conducted from 12 to 16 June, 1945. By this stage in the war, shore bombardment was a highly-developed technique.
Operation Iron Hammer (Iraq 2003) Operation Iron Hammer was a joint operation between the US Army, US Air Force and Iraqi Civil Defense Corps with the objective of preventing the staging of weapons by anti-coalition forces, and preemptively destroy enemy operating bases and fighters in Baghdad.
Operation Iron Hammer (WWII) Operation Iron Hammer was a plan by the German military to neutralise the Soviet Union's armament manufacturing industry during World War II. Conceived late in 1943, the plan could not be implemented as from early 1944 onwards, the Red Army over-ran more and more of the Luftwaffe's airfields, eventually putting the targets (around Moscow and Gorky) out of range of even the Luftwaffe's most far-reaching weapons.
Operation Iron Saber During Post-invasion Iraq, Operation Iron Saber was a coalition strike aimed at defeating the Mahdi army under the control of Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf, Al Kut and Karbala. The major United States unit involved was Task Force U.
Operation Ironside During World War II, Operation Ironside was a deception carried out by the Allies in 1944 in support of the invasion of Normandy. Ironside falsely threatened an Allied invasion of France along the Bay of Biscay, near Bordeaux during the summer of 1944.
Operation Isabella During World War II, Operation Isabella was a German plan to be put into effect after the collapse of the Soviet Union to secure bases in Spain and Portugal for the continuation of the strangulation of Great Britain. This concept was laid out by Hitler in June, 1941 but was never executed.
Operation Ivy (band) Operation Ivy was an influential ska punk band that originated from the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band consisted of frontman Jesse Michaels (vocals), Tim Armstrong (credited as "Lint") (vocals/guitar), Matt Freeman (credited as Matt McCall) (bass/backing vocals), and Dave Mello (Drums/backing vocals).
Operation Ivy Blizzard Operation Ivy Blizzard, occurred on December 17, 2003, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a counterinsurgent sweep of the Iraqi town of Samarra (part of the Sunni Triangle). The operation involved elements of the U.
Operation Jackpot Operation Jackpot was the codename assaigned to 2, possibly 3 operations launched by the Indian Army and the Bangladesh forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The original Operation Jackpot was the logistical and training operation set up under the Indian Army Eastern Command to aid the Mukti Bahini led insurgencySurrender at Dacca: Birth of A Nation, Jacob, Lt.
Operation Jael In World War 2, Operation Jael was an Allied deception operation conducted from November 1943 to February 1944 in Europe to convince the Germans that the center of Allied operations would continue to be in the Mediterranean area.
Operation Jaywick Operation Jaywick was one of the most daring and celebrated special operations undertaken in World War II. In September 1943, 15 Allied commandos from Z Force raided Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, sinking seven ships.
Operation Jedburgh Jedburgh was an operation in World War II in which men from the US Office of Strategic Services, the British Special Operations Executive joined with men from French BCRA (Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action, "Intelligence and operations central bureau", WWII-era forrunner of SDECE), or the Dutch Army to parachute into Nazi occupied France, Holland, or Belgium to conduct sabotage and guerilla warfare, and to lead the local resistance forces against the Germans. The operation took its name, probably assigned at random from a list of pre-approved code names, from the town Jedburgh in Scotland.
Operation Jericho Operation Jericho was a low-level attack on Amiens Prison in Nazi-occupied France undertaken by 19 Mosquito Mk. VI aircraft of the Royal Air Force led by Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard, DSO, DFC, on 18 February 1944.
Operation Joint Forge Operation Joint Forge was the name given to the operations of the NATO "Follow-On Force" in Bosnia beginning on 20 June, 1998. Operation Joint Forge terminated in Dec 2004 with the Transfer of Authority to the new European Union Force (EUFOR) at NATO HQ, Camp Butmir, Sarajevo, B-H.
Operation Joint Guardian Operation Joint Guardian was a military operation that occurred inside the region of Kosovo, located inside the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The operation involved peacekeepers from the United Nations, but the peacekeepers were under the command of NATO.
Operation Jubilee order of battle Operation Jubilee was the Allied code name for the raid at Dieppe on the French coast on August 19, 1942. The following order of battle lists the significant military units that participated in the battle, or were available as reserve.
Operation Jump Start Operation Jump Start is the name given to the deployment of United States National Guard troops along the United States–Mexico border. The deployment will entail enforcement of border security and construction of a fence along the border.
Operation Junction City Operation Junction City was a 72-day operation begun on 22 February 1967, and was conducted by US and South Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam Conflict. It was the largest US airborne operation since Operation Market Garden during the Second World War, and was one of the largest US operations of the Southeast Asian conflict.
Operation Jungle Operation Jungle was an early-Cold War MI6 program for the clandestine insertion of intelligence and resistance agents into the Baltic states between 1948 and 1955. The agents were mostly Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian emigrants who had been trained in the UK and Sweden and were to link up with the anti-Soviet resistance in the occupied states.
Operation Junkyard Operation Junkyard debuted in fall 2002 as part of the Discovery Kids Saturday morning programming schedule. Essentially a spin-off of TLC's popular series Junkyard Wars, OP/JY featured teams of teens that were challenged to build gadgets out of junk in six hours.
Operation Juno Operation Juno was a German naval offensive late in the Norwegian Campaign. The German ships involved were the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Admiral Hipper and the destroyers Karl Galster, Hans Lody, Erich Steinbrinck and Hermann Schoemann.
Operation keymer Operation Keymer was a crack down on cannabis growing factories in the United Kingdom during in the autumn of 2006. This was the first operation by the police to specifically target growing factories and the police desribed it as a great success.
Operation Karbala-5 Operation Karbala-5 was an offensive carried out by Iran in an effort to capture the Iraqi port city of Basra in early 1987. This battle, known for its extensive casualties and ferocious conditions, proved to be the beginning of the end of the Iran-Iraq War.
Operation Ke Operation Ke (Japanese: ケ号作戦) was the three-phase withdrawal of all Japanese forces from the Battle of Guadalcanal following the defeat of the Imperial Army in ground combat centered at Henderson Field and the near destruction of Japanese naval forces in the area. The operation was agreed on and initiated on January 14, 1943 by the Japanese Imperial Guard Headquarters and completed by February 7, 1943, marking the end of Japanese attempts to recapture Guadalcanal.
Operation Kept Promise Operation Kept Promise (Al-Waad Al-Sadek) is the name Hezbollah gave to its operation to kidnap Israeli soldiers as collateral for a prisoner exchange. Operation Al Waad al Saadek means Operation Kept Promise in Arabic.
Operation Keystone During World War II, Operation Keystone was a Special Air Service patrol consisting of a number of jeep-mounted and airborne teams that operated south of IJsselmeer in the central Netherlands in early April, 1945.
Operation Klipklop During the Bush war between the Republic of South Africa and SWAPO, Operation Kilpklop was a July, 1980 South African attack on enemy facilities in Angola. This followed Operation Sceptic and preceded Operation Protea.
Operation Kratos Operation Kratos is the code word used by the SO13 (Anti Terrorism branch) branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service to refer to policies surrounding and including "shoot-to-kill" tactics to be used in dealing with suspected terrorists and suicide bombers. The tactics were developed shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and are claimed to be based in part on consultation with Israeli and Sri Lankan law enforcement agencies on how to deal with "deadly and determined" attackers.
Operation Kutuzov Operation Kutuzov was a military operation by the Red Army in its fight against the German Wehrmacht during World War II. It was named after Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, the Tsarist general credited with saving Russia from defeat during the invasion by Napoleon in 1812.
Operation liberty (fishing) Operation Liberty is the brainchild of Mike Goh, a Singapore resident who is also one of the current Consultants of Fishingkaki. It is a movement advocating Catch and Release in angling and promotes sport fishing.
Operation Lalang Operation Lalang (or in English, Weeding Operation; also referred to as Ops Lalang) was carried out on 27 October 1987 by the Malaysian police to crack down on opposition leaders and social activists. The operation saw the infamous arrest of 106 persons under the ISA and the revoking of the publishing licenses of two dailies, The Star and the Sin Chew Jit Poh and two weeklies, The Sunday Star and Watan.
Operation Last Call Operation Last Call is the name of a law enforcement operation in the state of Texas in which undercover agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission make arrests for public intoxication in places that serve alcoholic beverages. The aim of the operation, which was first announced in August 2005, is to prevent drunk driving.
Operation Last Chance Operation Last Chance was launched in July 2002 by Simon Wiesenthal Center in order to track down Ex-Nazis still in hiding, as most of them would be nearing the end of their lifetime, hence the operation's name. Aribert Heim, who was discovered in November 2005 in Spain (after living there for 20 years with the help of the ODESSA network) may be one of the persons included in the list of four names given by Simon Wiesenthal Center in this code-name operation.
Operation LĂĽttich Operation LĂĽttich was a counterattack launched by German forces on the left flank of the Allied lodgment around Mortain (the objective of Operation Cobra). Part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II, it began on 7 August, and had been successfully repulsed within six days, mainly by the efforts of the 30th Infantry Division.
Operation Lea The military operation codenamed Lèa was an attempt by French colonial forces in Indochina to capture the Communist leaders of the Vietnamese movement for independence (Viet Minh), which started on October 7, 1947 and unsuccessfully finished at December 22,1947.
Operation Lifeline Sudan Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) is a consortium of UN agencies and approximately 35 NGOs (Non-governmental organizations) operating in southern Sudan to provide humanitarian assistance throughout war-torn and drought-afflicted regions in the South.
Operation Lightning After the handover of sovereignty, Operation Lightning was a major combined Iraqi/American counterinsurgency cordon-and-search operation announced on May 26 2005. Iraqi security units established over 400 checkpoints throughout the city.
Operation Lobster I Operation Lobster I (Unternehmen Hummer I in German) was an Abwehr plan to infiltrate three German agents into Ireland, (the territory formerly known as the Irish Free State), in July 1940. It is part of a wider series of missions carried out within the framework of Operation Lobster during World War II.
Operation Logic Bomb Operation Logic Bomb is a Super Nintendo action game where you have to liberate a futuristic power plant from monsters that escaped through virtual reality. There are lots of robots and big bosses to fight as you liberate your comrades from being trapped inside dimensional errors (sections of reality that are turned into hexes of the virtual world).
Operation Lost During World War II, Operation Lost was a seven-man Special Air Service operation conducted in Brittany alongside Operation Dingson in June and July of 1944. Originally inserted to discover what had happened to Dingson.
Operation Lustre During World War II, Operation Lustre was the dispatch of British, Australian, New Zealand and Polish troops from Egypt to Greece in March and April 1941, in response to the failed Italian invasion and the new German threat revealed through Ultra.
Operation Magic Carpet Operation Magic Carpet was the post-World War II effort by the United States Navy to bring troops home from Europe and the Pacific. Hundreds of Navy ships were involved; everything from aircraft carriers and battleships down to tenders and auxiliaries were outfitted with thousands of extra bunks, and made multiple round trips during 1945 and 1946.
Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen) Operation Magic Carpet was an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 45,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Israel. British and American transport planes made some 380 flights from Aden, in a secret operation that was not made public until several months after it was over.
Operation Magistral Operation Magistral was a military operation in November 1987 during the Soviet war in Afghanistan launched to open the road from Khost to Soviet 40th Army base in Kunduz, Paktia Province. A portion of the road had been held closed by the Mujahideen since 1979.
Operation Majestic During World War II, Operation Majestic was an alternate plan for the intended Allied invasion of the southernmost Japanese home island of Kyūshū. It was rejected in favor of Olympic, but elements of Majestic were incorporated into deception plans such as Pastel.
Operation Manna Operation Manna took place from 29 April to 8 May 1945, at the end of World War II. Lancaster bombers of the Royal Air Force dropped food into parts of the occupied Netherlands, with the acquiescence of the occupying German forces, to feed people who were in danger of starvation in the Dutch famine.
Operation Market Garden Operation Market Garden (September 17-September 25, 1944) was an Allied military operation in World War II. Its tactical objectives were to secure a series of bridges over the main rivers of the German-occupied Netherlands by large-scale use of airborne forces together with a rapid advance by armoured units along the connecting roads, for the strategic purpose of allowing an Allied crossing of the Rhine river, the last major natural barrier to an advance into Germany.
Operation Medak Pocket Operation Medak Pocket (Croatian: Medački džep) was a military operation undertaken by the Croatian Army between September 9 – September 17, 1993 in which a salient around the small village of Medak in the south-central Lika region of Croatia, then under the control of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina, was attacked by Croatian forces.
Operation Meghdoot Operation Meghdoot was the name given to the preemptive attack launched by the Indian Military to capture most of the Siachen Glacier, in the disputed Kashmir region, precipating the Siachen Conflict. Launched on April 13, 1984, this military operation was unique as it was the first assault launched in the world's highest battlefield.
Operation Menu Operation Menu was the codename for a top-secret United States Air Force bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970, during the Vietnam Conflict. The targets of these attacks were sanctuaries and Base Areas of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), which utilized them for resupply, training, and resting between campaigns across the border in the Republic of Vietnam.
Operation Meridian During World War II, Operation Meridian was a series of British air attacks conducted on 24 January (Meridian One) and 29 January (Meridian Two) 1945 on Japanese-held oil refineries at Palembang, on Sumatra. The critical aviation fuel output of these plants were reduced by seventy-five percent.
Operation Merlin Operation Merlin is an alleged United States covert operation under the Clinton Administration to provide Iran with a flawed design for building a nuclear weapon in order to delay the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Operation Meteor Operation Meteor (referred to by OZ as Operation M) is the primary plot device in the Gundam After Colony alternate universe. It is a military operation whose original design is the brainchild of Barton Foundation leader Dekim Barton, but was hijacked by the scientists that created the five Gundam mobile suits because the original idea amounted merely to genocide.
Operation Midnight Climax Operation Midnight Climax was an operation initially established by Sidney Gottlieb and placed under the direction of Narcotics Bureau officer George White under the alias of Morgan Hall for the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKULTRA, the CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950s.
Operation Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat was a highly successful British deception plan during World War II which convinced the German High Command (OKW) that the Allies would invade the Balkans and Sardinia instead of the island of Sicily, the actual objective. The operation called for making the Germans believe that they had, by accident, intercepted highly classified documents detailing future Allied war plans, and part of Mincemeat's success lay in the unusual nature of the operation: the plans were attached to a corpse deliberately left to wash up on a Spanish beach.
Operation Mo Operation Mo (Mo Sakusen) or the Port Moresby Operation was the name of the Japanese plan to take control of the Australian territory of New Guinea during World War II as well as other locations in the South Pacific with the goal of isolating Australia and New Zealand from their ally the United States. The plan was developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy and supported by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet
Operation Mobilisation Operation Mobilisation is an Evangelical Christian organisation founded by George Verwer to mobilise young people to live and share the Gospel of Jesus. OM, as it is known, started in Mexico and had spread to Europe and India by 1963.
Operation Moonwatch Operation Moonwatch (also known as Project Moonwatch and, more simply, as Moonwatch) was an amateur science program formally initiated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in 1956. The SAO organized Moonwatch as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) which was probably the largest single scientific undertaking in history.

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