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Operation Morning Light Operation Morning Light was the joint Canadian/American recovery of the residue of the Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, which crashed near Great Slave Lake in January, 1978. The debris included radioactive portions of the satellite’s power plant and other items of interest to Western intelligence agencies.
Operation Moses Operation Moses, named after the biblical figure Moses, was the covert removal of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" community) from Sudan during a famine in 1984. The operation was a cooperative effort between the Israel Defense Forces, the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States embassy in Khartoum, mercenaries and Sudanese state security forces.
Operation Most III Operation Most III ("Bridge III") was a World War II operation in which Poland's Armia Krajowa provided the Allies with crucial intelligence on the German V-2 rocket. On the British side, it was also known as the Operation Wildhorn III.
Operation Mountain Resolve Operation Mountain Resolve was launched by a coalition led by the United States on November 7, 2003 in the Nuristan province and Kunar province in Afghanistan. It involved an airdrop into the Hindu Kush mountains by the U.
Operation Mountain Viper In Operation Mountain Viper, the United States Army and the Afghan National Army (nearly 1000 in number) worked together from August 30 to early September, 2003, to uncover hundreds of suspected Taliban rebels dug into the mountains of Daychopan district, Zabul province, Afghanistan.
Operation Murambatsvina Operation Murambatsvina (Shona: Operation Drive Out Trash), also officially known as Operation Restore Order, is a large scale Zimbabwean government campaign to forcibly clear slum areas across the country. The campaign started in 2005 and according to United Nations estimates has affected at least 2.
Operation Musketeer (1956) Operation Musketeer was the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt to capture the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis. It was conducted in October 1956 in coordination with the Israeli armored thrust into the Sinai, which was called Operation Kadesh.
Operation Musketoon Operation Musketoon was an Anglo-Norwegian raid against a German-held Generator Station at Glomfjord, Norway in September, 1942 during the Second World War. The team comprised a total of twelve men - ten commandos and two Norwegian corporals - working for the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Operation Nachshon The objective of Operation Nachshon (or Nahshon), an Israeli military operation in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, was to open up the Jerusalem road that had been besieged by the Arabs. It was named after the Biblical figure Nachshon Ben Aminadav who was the first to wade into the Red Sea when the Hebews escaped from slavery in Egypt.
Operation Nanook Operation Nanook was an Arctic expedition undertaken by the US Navy in 1946. It consisted of USS Norton Sound (AV-11), USS Atule (SS-403), USS Northwind (WAG-282), USS Alcana (AK-157), USS Bel-trami (AK-162), and USS Whitewood (YN-84).
Operation Narcissus During World War II, Operation Narcissus was a raid by forty members of the Special Air Service on a lighthouse on the southeast coast of Sicily. The team landed on 10 July, 1943 with the mission of capturing the lighthouse and the surrounding high ground.
Operation Nekka Operation Nekka, (Nekka, "熱河", is "Jehol" in Japanese), also known as the First battle of Hopei (= Hebei province), was a Japanese military campaign against the Northeastern Army of China in Jehol between (January 1 - May 31 1933), following the 1931/32 invasion of Manchuria. Known to the Chinese as the Defense of the Great Wall.
Operation Nemesis Operation Nemesis is the Armenian Revolutionary Federation code-name for the covert operation in the 1920s to assassinate the Turkish masterminds of the Armenian Genocide. It is named after the Greek goddess of divine retribution, Nemesis.
Operation Neptune Operation Neptune was the term for the landing phase of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy. Neptune took place on Gold Beach, Juno Beach, Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc, Sword Beach and Utah Beach.
Operation Neptune (game) Operation Neptune is a computer game produced in 1991 by The Learning Company. The goal of the game is to guide a small submarine through a variety of undersea caverns, collecting pieces of a ruined space capsule.
Operation Neptune (Soviet Attack 1943) Operation Neptune was the name for the Soviet attack of January 1943 during the Battle of Stalingrad. The operation called for an attack on the Italian 8th Army, with the goal of taking the Black Sea city of Rostov-on-Don and thus cutting off the supply lines of the Axis armies.
Operation New Market After the handover of sovereignty, Operation New Market was a sweep of an area near Haditha in western Iraq conducted by one thousand coalition and Iraqi Security Forces. It was launched on 25 May 2005 and followed Operation Squeeze Play.
Operation Niagara Operation Niagara was a US Seventh Air Force close air support campaign carried out from January through March 1968, during the Vietnam Conflict. Its purpose was to serve as an aerial umbrella for the defense of the US Marine Corps Combat Base on the Khe Sanh Plateau, in western Quang Tri Province of the Republic of Vietnam.
Operation Nifty Package Operation Nifty Package was a plan, conducted in the opening hours of the Operation Just Cause, to apprehend or prevent the escape of the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. This operation included a team of U.
Operation Nimbus Moon Operation Nimbus Moon was the 1974 clearance of naval mines and unexploded ordnance from portions of the Suez Canal conducted by the United States and its allies during the conflict between Egypt and Israel in 1973. The work was completed on December 20, 1974.
Operation Nimbus Spar Operation Nimbus Spar, conducted in 1974 was the final phase of the clearance of the Suez Canal. This operation designated the United States Navy's supervision of a number of civilian contractors who lifted wrecked ships from the canal.
Operation Nimbus Star Operation Nimbus Star was the 1974 clearance of naval mines and other debris from the Suez Canal conducted by the United States, France and Britain as a part of the Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
Operation Niyathai Jaya Operation Niyathai Jaya (English translation:Operation Definite Victory) (In Sinhala: ) was a military operation launched by Sri Lankan Special Task Force commandos on January 04, 2007 to evict LTTE rebels from the Kanchikudichcharu and Thoppigala regions of the Ampara District of Sri Lanka. It was launched as a reaction to the child abductions in Bakmitiyawa, Ampara and abduction of two teachers and 23 Tamil children in December while returning from extra classes to their homes.
Operation Noah (World War II) During World War II, Operation Noah was a reconnaissance patrol by 41 Belgian members of the Special Air Service who operated in the Ardennes from 16 August to 13 September 1944 when they were overrun by the advancing Americans.
Operation Noah's Ark Operation Noah’s Ark (Hebrew: מבצע תיבת נוח) was the Israeli military action in which they seized the Karine A, a Palestinian Authority freighter in the Red Sea. The vessel was found to be carrying twelve-mile-range Katyusha rockets, antitank missiles, and high explosives.
Operation Nordpol Operation Nordpol, also called , was an enormous deception operation by the German Abwehr in World War Two. German forces captured Allied resistance agents operating in the Netherlands, and used the agents' codes to fool the Allies into continuing to provide the agents with information and supplies.
Operation Nordwind (1941) Operation Nordwind was a joint German-Finnish naval operation in the Baltic Sea in 1941. The operation itself was a distracting manoeuvre so that another German force could occupy the Estonian islands of Hiiumaa and Saaremaa without the interference of the Soviet Red Fleet.
Operation North Night Final Operation North Night Final was a joint DR Congo-UN peacekeeper operation in December 2005 to restore peace in the troubled Ituri district in DR Congo. The operation is mainly aimed at fighting the Ugandan rebels stationed there (Allied Democratic Forces/National Army for the Liberation of Uganda) and involves ca.
Operation Northern Delay On March 26, 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, SETAF's 173rd Airborne Brigade conducted a parachute assault into Northern Iraq. More than 1,000 paratroopers jumped into Bashur Airfield in a historical and critical mission.
Operation Northern Watch Operation Northern Watch, the successor to Operation Provide Comfort, was a US European Command Combined Task Force (CTF) charged with enforcing its own no-fly zone above the 36th parallel in Iraq. Its mission began on 1 January 1997.
Operation Nuke Operation Nuke is the title of the second book in the Cyborg series of science fiction/secret agent novels by Martin Caidin which was first published in 1973, just prior to Cyborg being adapted as the television series The Six Million Dollar Man. The first paperback edition of the novel was published as a tie-in with the series.
Operation of law The phrase "by operation of law" is a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party, irrespective of the intent of that party, because it is dictated by existing legal principles. For example, if a person dies without a will, his heirs are determined by operation of law.
Operation Ore Operation Ore was a large-scale international police operation that commenced in 1999 intending to indict thousands of users of websites featuring child pornography. In the United Kingdom, it led to 7,250 suspects indentified, 4,283 homes searched, 3,744 arrests, 1,848 charged, 1,451 convictions, 493 cautioned, 879 investigations underway, 109 children removed from suspected dangerous situations and at least 35 suicides.
Operation Orient Express According to National Security Adviser Richard Clarke's book Against All Enemies, Operation Orient Express was the unofficial title given to a successful pact in 1996 from within the Clinton administration to oust Boutros Boutros-Ghali from his position as United Nations Secretary-General. Involved in the pact were Clarke, Madeleine Albright, Michael Sheehan, and James Rubin, among others.
Operation Orkan 91 After successful completion of Operation Otkos 10, the first offensive operation of such scale by Croatian army in the homeland war, Croatian troops were in position to retake further territory and neutralize a number of Serbian held military positions and fortifications.
Operation Ortsac Operation Ortsac was the project name of a possible invasion of Cuba planned by the United States military in 1962. The name was derived from Cuban President Fidel Castro, whose surname is spelled backwards to form the codename of the planned operation.
Operation Otkos 10 After the attacking forces of the 5th Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) corps (Banja Luka corps) had successfully crossed Sava river into Croatia captured Okučani in western Slavonia it was their primary objective to advance along Pakrac - Grubišno Polje route and link up with th 28th partisan division on Bilogora hill, sever Podravska magistrala road route and reach Hungarian border thus completely severing Slavonia from the remainder of Croatia, including the capital, Zagreb.
Operation Ovda Operation Ovda was an operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, from March 5 to March 10, 1949. It was the last IDF operation during the war and its objective was to capture the southern Negev desert, which was claimed by Jordan in the armistice talks of 1949.
Operation Overkill Operation: Overkill is a text-based BBS (Bulletin board system) door game. Players take the role of warriors on a post-apocalyptic Earth, battling against an alien race, the Hydrites, and their evil overlord, Overkill.
Operation Panama Express Operation Panama Express is a long-running Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) comprising participants from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the United States Coast Guard, and the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida. According to a March 2006 Congressional testimony by DEA Chief of Operations Michael Braun, Operation Panama Express has resulted in the seizure of 350 metric tons (392 tons) of cocaine and the arrests of 1,107 individuals.
Operation Panzerfaust In October 1944, Hitler sent one of his favorite commando leaders, Otto Skorzeny, to Hungary when he received word that the country's Regent, MiklĂłs Horthy was secretly negotiating his country's surrender to the looming Red Army. This surrender would have cut off a million German troops fighting in the Balkan peninsula.
Operation Paperclip Operation Paperclip was the codename under which the US intelligence and military services extricated Nazi scientists from Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. The project was originally called Operation Overcast, and is sometimes also known as Project Paperclip.
Operation Paraquat Paraquat was the unofficial name given to Operation Paraquet, the code-word for the British military operation to recapture the Island of South Georgia from Argentine military control in April 1982. This operation, a subsidiary of the main Operation Corporate (recapture of the Falkland Islands from Argentina) was successful, leading to the island being restored to British rule on April 25, 1982.
Operation Paraquet Paraquet was the code-word for the British military operation to recapture the Island of South Georgia from Argentine military control in April 1982. This operation, a subsidiary of the main Operation Corporate (recapture of the Falkland Islands from Argentina) was successful, leading to the island being restored to British rule on April 25, 1982.
Operation Pastel During World War II, Operation Pastel was the deception plan scheduled to protect Operation Olympic, the planned invasion of southern Japan. Pastel would have falsely portrayed a threat of an American-led invasion against ports in China.
Operation Pastorius Operation Pastorius was a failed attack by Nazi Germany on the United States staged in June 1942. It was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America.
Operation Patio Operation Patio was a covert aerial interdiction effort conducted by the United States Seventh Air Force in Cambodia from 24-29 April 1970 during the Vietnam Conflict. It served as a tactical adjunct to the heavier B-52 bombing missions being carried out in Operation Menu.
Operation Pawan Operation Pawan was the codename assigned to the operations by the Indian Peace Keeping Force to take control of Jaffna from the LTTE in late 1987 to enforce the disarmament of the LTTE as a part of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord. In brutal fighting that took about three weeks, the IPKF took control of the Jaffna Peninsula from the LTTE rule, something that the Sri Lankan army had tried and failed to achieve for several years.
Operation PBSUCCESS Operation PBSUCCESS was a CIA-organized covert operation that overthrew the democratically-elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954. Arbenz's government put forth a number of new policies that the US intelligence community deemed to be Communist in nature, and, suspecting that the Soviet Union was pulling the strings, subsequently fueled a fear of Guatemala becoming a "Soviet beachhead in the western hemisphere"1 within the CIA and the Eisenhower administration -- a concern that found no shortage of believers outside of this circle given the intensely anti-Communist McCarthyism prevalent at the time.
Operation Pedestal Operation Pedestal was a British operation to get vital supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during World War II and the height of the Axis siege of Malta. The British knew that Malta would have to capitulate if supplies of desperately needed fuel and ammunition did not reach its forces here.
Operation Pegasus Operation Pegasus was an Allied action in World War II as a consequence of the failure of Operation Market Garden. Some surviving soldiers from the 1st Airborne Division had avoided capture and sought shelter in the forests to the west around Ede.
Operation Pegasus (police) Operation Pegasus was a Brazilian federal police dragnet designed to capture over a hundred individuals suspected of breaking into on-line bank accounts and appropriating approximately $33 000 000. Eighty-five people across seven states were arrested as a result of the four-month investigation.
Operation Peter Pan Operation Peter Pan (OperaciĂłn Pedro Pan), was an operation coordinated by the United States government, the Roman Catholic Church, and Cuban dissidents in which over 14,000 children were brought from Cuba to the United States. It took place between December 26, 1960 and October 23, 1962.
Operation Phillis Operation Phillis was the British service-assisted evacuation operation for British citizens in CĂ´te d'Ivoire in November 2004. It was put into effect on 11 November of that year in response to the Civil war in CĂ´te d'Ivoire.
Operation Pin Operation Pin is an initiative of the Virtual Global Taskforce, which consists of UK's National Crime Squad, the FBI, Interpol, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Australian Hi-Tech Crime Centre / Australian Federal Police (AFP). Its stated aim is to identify pedophiles who are using the internet to access child pornography.
Operation Planet X During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Planet X was a US Army mechanized raid conducted on a village near Ad Dawr and Al Dur, 11 miles north of Tikrit on the night of 15 May, 2003 by elements of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, U.S.
Operation Platinum Fox Unternehmen Platinfuchs (Operation Platinum Fox) was a German and Finnish military offensive launched during World War II. Platinfuchs took place on the Eastern Front and had the objective of capturing the White Sea port of Murmansk.
Operation Plowshare Operation Plowshare, better known as Project Plowshare, not to be confused with the anti-nuclear Plowshares Movement, was the overall United States term for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The phrase was coined in 1961, taken from Micah 4:3 ("And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more").
Operation Plumbat The Plumbat Operation (1968) was an alleged operation by Lekem-Mossad that was undertaken in support of the Israeli nuclear weapons effort. The German freighter „Scheersberg A", disappeared on its way from Antwerp to Genoa along with its cargo of some 200 tons of uranium oxide (Yellowcake).
Operation Plumbbob Operation Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957 at the Nevada Test Site. It was the biggest, longest, and most controversial test series in the continental United States.
Operation Plunder During World War II, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the Rhine river at Rees, Wesel and south of the Lippe Canal by the British Second Army, under Lieutenant-General Miles C Dempsey, and the US Ninth Army, under Lieutenant-General William H Simpson. These formations formed part of the 21st Army Group under General Bernard Montgomery.
Operation Polar Star Operation Polar Star was an operation conceived by the Stavka of the Red Army in early 1943, during the Soviet-German War. Its aim was to follow on the success of Operation Spark, which had created a land connection to Leningrad for the first time since the beginning of the siege.
Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev (literally: "Commander Rumyantsev", after 18th-century Field Marshal Peter Rumyantsev) was a military operation conducted by the Red Army in its fight against the German Wehrmacht during World War II. The operation was conducted by Steppe Front in the Belgorod sector.
Operation Pomegranate (SAS) Operation Pomegranate was a four-man raid in support of Operation Shingle by the Special Air Service conducted on the italian airfield San Egidio on the night of January 12, 1944. Only two of the team were able to reach the target planting bombs on seven airplanes.
Operation Poomalai Operation Poomalai or Eagle Mission 4 was the codename assigned to a mercy mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force to airdrop humanitarian relief supplies over the town of Jaffna in Sri Lanka on 4 June 1987 in support of Tamil Tigers during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Operation Prime Time Operation Prime Time (OPT) was a syndication block of programming offered to independent stations in the 1970s by what was then called MCA (now NBC Universal Television). It was MCA's desire to launch new television shows by having them run in first-run syndication.
Operation Project X Operation Project X (originally The Neo Project), was an effort to discover the encryption key for Xbox software by brute force, to allow homebrew (and effectively pirated) software to run on the platform without a modchip. Since it is a 2048 bit key, the project by its own admission was very unlikely to succeed, and was shut down, presumably for legal reasons, a few months after its debut.
Operation Provide Relief Operation Provide Relief was part of a United Nation (UN) endorsed effort called The Unified Task Force (UNITAF) to secure and facilitate humanitarian relief for the people of Somalia, an effort that was assisted by the UN UNOSOM I mission beginning in 1991 in light of a severe famine, initiated and exacerbated by the ongoing Somali civil war. It was initiated and spearheaded by the United States of America and other Western nations that committed troops to conduct the operation.
Operation Pseudo Miranda Operation Pseudo Miranda was fashioned by CIA Director Bill Casey in the early 1980’s as an instrument in the purported “War on Drugs.” This highly secretive, extremely compartmentalized operation was executed by the Directorate of Operations beginning in 1984.
Operation Quicksilver (1990s) Operation Quicksilver (United States, 1990s) was a plan to reduce the size of the United States Army in the early 1990s as a result of the end of the Cold War. A number of incentives such as early retirement were used to reduce the number of soldiers on active duty by a third.
Operation Quicksilver (WWII) In World War II, Operation Quicksilver (Allies, 1944) was a sub-plan of Operation Fortitude, the 1944 deception plan designed to induce the Germans to hold troops away from Normandy in belief that the Normandy landing was only a feint and that the major invasion would come in the Pas-de-Calais. The key element of Quicksilver was the creation in German minds that "First United States Army Group" (FUSAG) commanded by General George Patton supposedly would land in the Pas-de-Calais for the major invasion of Europe, after the landings in Normandy had lured the German defenders to that front.
Operation Quickstep Operation Quickstep is the name given to the Australian Defence Force's response to the potential of a potential coup d'Ă©tat in Fiji during late 2006. This potential occurred on 4-5 December 2006, with the Fijian military taking control from the Fijian government led by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.
Operation Ramadan A phase of the Iran-Iraq War, Operation Ramadan was launched by Iran in July of 1982 near Basra. It featured the use of human wave attacks against the Iraqi defenses in one of the largest land battles since World War II.
Operation RAFTER RAFTER was a codename for the MI5 radio receiver detection technique, mostly used against clandestine Soviet agents and monitoring of domestic radio transmissions by foreign embassy personnel from the 1950s on.
Operation Red Card Operation Red Card is the name given to a two-month Asia-wide anti-piracy operation that was conducted by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) (the international arm of the Motion Picture Association of America) which resulted in the seizure of 6.7 million pirated discs in 12 countries across the Asia-Pacific region.
Operation Reindeer (Scandinavia) Operation Reindeer, was a planned invasion of the north Scandinavian peninsula by the Soviets, called in Russian Operation Poro (Operation Reindeer). The plan originated in 1932 and was rehashed during the period 1935 to 1936.
Operation Reinhard Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhard in German) was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the beginning of the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps. During the operation, as many as two million people were murdered in Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Majdanek, almost all of them Jews.
Operation Relex Operation Relex is the name given to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) border protection operation in the country's northern approaches. The operation was instigated following the MV Tampa incident in September 2001.
Operation Rescue Operation Rescue is a pro-life group founded by Randall Terry in the late 1980s. Operation Rescue sprang to prominence during the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, where hundreds of arrests for peaceful civil disobedience took place, capturing national attention.
Operation Rescue New Zealand Operation Rescue New Zealand was a short-lived New Zealand pro-life civil disobedience group (1989-1992), descended from Wellington and Christchurch's "Pro-Life Action Groups." Both organisations had parent organisations within the United States, such as Joseph Scheidler's Pro-Life Action League and Randall Terry's Operation Rescue (now Operation Save America).
Operation Retribution During World War II, Operation Retribution was a series of air and naval attacks designed to prevent the German evacuation of North Africa through Tunis. The Africa Korps was surrounded and facing a final Allied attack (Operation Vulcan).
Operation Rimau Operation Rimau was an attack on Japanese shipping at Singapore Harbour, carried out by the Allied commando unit Z Force, during World War II. It was a follow-up to the successful Operation Jaywick, which had taken place in 1943.
Operation Ring Operation Ring (Russian: Операция Кoльцo) was the code name given to the May 1991 military operation conducted by Soviet Internal Security Forces and OMON units in the region of Shahumyan, north of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR. Officially dubbed a "passport checking operation", the stated goal launched by the Soviet Union's internal and defense ministries was to disarm Armenian militia detachments which were organized in "[illegally] armed formations.
Operation Ripper Operation Ripper was a military operation conceived by General Ridgway during the Korean War, intended to destroy as much of the People's Volunteer Army and North Korean military from Seoul and of the towns of Hongch'on, fifty miles west of Seoul, and Ch'unch'on, fifteen miles farther to the north and to bring UN troops to the 38th parallel. It followed upon the heels of Operation Killer, an eight day UN offensive that concluded February 28, to push Communist forces north of the Han River.
Operation River Falcon Operation River Falcon was a military operation in the Iraq War. From July 25-27, 2006, elements of the United States Army 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (including elements of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Battalion, 10th Cavalry Regiment) conducted Operation River Falcon in and around the town of Sayifiyeh in Iraq.
Operation Roast Operation Roast was an operation by British Commandos at Comacchio lagoon, north east Italy during World War II. This was the first major action in the Allied 15th Army Group's big spring offensive to push the Germans back to and across the River Po and out of Italy.
Operation Rockingham Operation Rockingham was the codeword for UK involvement in inspections in Iraq following the war over Kuwait in 1990-91. Early in 1991 the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) was established to oversee the destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Operation Safed Sagar Operation Safed Sagar was the codename assigned to the Indian Air Force's strike to support the Ground troops during Operation Vijay that was aimed to flush out Regular and Irregular troops of the Pakistani Army from vacated Indian Positions in the Kargil sector along the Line of Control. It was the first large scale use of air power in the Kashmir region since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Operation Safeguard Operation Safeguard is a contingency plan to deal with prison overcrowding in the United Kingdom, it involves using cells at police stations as accommodation for prisoners when the number of cells in prisons becomes critically low.Metropolitan Police Authority, Operation Safeguard, 3 Mar 2006, (accessed 10 Oct 2006) On 9 October 2006, the Home Secretary John Reid announced the implementation of Operation Safeguard as the prison population had reached 79,843 leaving only 125 spaces.
Operation Safraan During the Bush War between the Republic of South Africa and SWAPO, Operation Safraan was a series of South African raids into the Caprivi Strip area in Angola. Conducted in March, 1979 concurrently with Operation Rekstok; it preceded Operation Reindeer and followed Operation Sceptic.
Operation Sand Flea Operation Sand Flea was a series of training exercises for the American invasion of Panama. These troop movements and practice assaults were disguised as training to defend the Panama Canal (then called Purple Storm).
Operation Sandshaker Operation Sandshaker was a three year investigation, between 2000 and 2003 in the Pensacola area that resulted in the arrest of more than thirty residents, many of them respected individuals within the community. The individuals were suspected in trafficking cocaine from Miami into the Pensacola area.
Operation Santa Claus Operation Santa Claus is the annual fundraising campaign organised by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) and the English Programme Service of Radio Television Hong Kong (Radio 3). The campaign seeks to raise funds and awareness for Hong Kong charities over the winter holiday season.
Operation Sassoon Operation Sassoon provides a basic generic framework for an emergency evacuation plan of any part of London, or Heathrow, in the case of a major terrorist attack in the British capital. It is part of an extensive anti-terror plan installed by the British Government in response to the rising threat of terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom.
Operation Save America Operation Save America, formerly known as Operation Rescue is a Christian Pro-Life organization, founded in the United States by Randall Terry in 1986. To distinguish it from Operation Rescue West, now simply known as Operation Rescue, led by Troy Newman, it is also sometimes referred to as Operation Rescue National although that name is seldom now in use.
Operation Saxifrage During World War II, Operation Saxifrage was a raid by four small Special Air Service teams who landed on the east coast of Italy on the night of 27 October, 1943. Despite miserable weather, the team was able to cut the rail line between Ancona and Pescara in several places before being withdrawn by boat on 27 October.
Operation Sceptic During the Bush War between the Republic of South Africa and SWAPO, Operation Sceptic was described in 1980 as being the largest sweep during the fighting up to that time. This operation followed Operation Safraan and preceded Operation Klipklop.
Operation Sea Eagle Operation Sea Eagle ("Unternehmen Seeadler" in German) sometimes referred to as Operation Dove II ("Unternehmen Taube II" in German) was a German Foreign Ministry plan conceived in May 1941 after the collapse of planning around Operation Whale ("Unternehmen Walfisch" in German).The German Foreign Ministry referred to the plan as Taube II- this was mostly likely due to the involvement of the high placed operative Frank Ryan within the planning phase.
Operation Sea Orbit Operation: "Sea Orbit" was the 1964 around the world cruise of the United States Navy's Task Force One, consisting of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), USS Long Beach (CGN-9), and USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25). This all nuclear powered unit steamed unrefulled around the world for sixty five days.
Operation Seagull (Ireland) Operation Seagull ("Unternehmen Möwe" or "Seemöwe" in German) was an Abwehr II/Brandenburger Regiment sanctioned mission launched in September 1940. The object of the mission was to infiltrate Britain in preparation for Operation Sealion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German).

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