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Operation Sealion Operation Sealion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German) was a World War II Nazi Germany plan to invade the United Kingdom, beginning in 1940. The operation was postponed in late 1940 and later abandoned entirely in 1943.
Operation Sealion order of battle The German plan for a land invasion of England in 1940 was code-named Operation Sealion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German). This is the Operation Sealion order of battle for the modified German plan produced in August, 1940.
Operation Searchlight Operation Searchlight was a planned pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in erstwhile East Pakistan in 1971.Sarmila Bose Anatomy of Violence: Analysis of Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971: Military Action: Operation Searchlight Economic and Political Weekly Special Articles, October 8, 2005 Ordered by the government in West Pakistan, this was seen as the sequel to Operation Blitz that was launched in November 1970.
Operation Sharp Guard Operation Sharp Guard was a joint operation between NATO and the Western European Union (WEU) beginning on 15 June 1993, suspended 19 June 1996 and terminated 2 October 1996. It replaced operations MARITIME GUARD and SHARP FENCE.
Operation Shield Operation Shield is a nationwide initiative led by British Transport Police, where security scanners are to be deployed at major railway stations with the aim of discouraging crimninal activity on the rail network.
Operation Shingle Operation Shingle (January 22, 1944), during the Italian Campaign of World War II, was an Allied amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. The operation was commanded by Major General John P.
Operation Shining Hope Joint Task Force (JTF) Shining Hope was the United States contribution to Operation Allied Harbour. The mission of JTF Shining Hope was to conduct foreign humanitarian assistance operations in support of US government agencies and non-governmental and international organizations engaged in providing humanitarian relief to Kosovo refugees in Albania and the Republic of Macedonia.
Operation Show Me How Operation Show Me How was an international, multicountry drug enforcement operation coordinated by Interpol around January 1998. Tapping into its vast databases of wanted criminals, missing persons, organized crime groups, drug seizures, unidentified dead bodies and stolen artwork, Interpol took a few examples of drug seizures relating to small packages delivered from Thailand to hotels in the United Kingdom and uncovered a 50 country heroin smuggling operation within 24 hours.
Operation Silver Wake Operation Silver Wake was a noncombatant evacuation operation (NEO) led by the United States to evacuate American citizens, noncombatants and designated third country nationals from Albania in March of 1997. The operation was performerd by U.
Operation Site Down Operation Site Down was the umbrella name for a law enforcement initiative conducted by the FBI and law enforcement agents from ten other countries which resulted in a raid on targets on June 29, 2005. Three separate undercover investigations were involved, based in Chicago (Operation Jolly Roger), Charlotte, and San Jose (Operation Copycat).
Operation Skye Operation Skye was a deception plan carried out by the Allies during World War II, in which fake wireless traffic was created in order to give the appearance of units that threatened an invasion of Norway from Britain. It was a subplan of Operation Fortitude, a wider deception plan designed to mask the Allied intention to invade Normandy (Operation Overlord).
Operation Sledgehammer During World War II, Operation Sledgehammer was an Allied contingency plan for a limited-objective cross-channel invasion of Europe in response to a German or Soviet collapse in 1942. It was to be used to reduce pressure on the Russians.
Operation Smile Operation Smile is a private, not-for-profit volunteer medical services organization providing reconstructive surgery and related health care to indigent children and young adults in developing countries and the United States. It provides free cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries for children in the countries in which it works, along with training for health-care professionals to improve local capacity in partner countries.
Operation Snatch Operation Snatch (1962) is a British comedy film starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders. The story takes place in Gibraltar, and is based on a local legend: if the resident Barbary Apes were ever to leave, the British Empire would collapse.
Operation Snow White Operation Snow White was the name given internally by the Church of Scientology to a program which included the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history. Under this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices, most notably those of the U.
Operation Snowcap Operation Snowcap (1987-1994) was an operation planned by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics Matters (INM) to help disrupt the growing, processing, and transporting of cocaine in Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Chile,Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico. It included the DEA and the U.
Operation Solace Operation Solace was the Australian Defence Force's main contribution to humanitarian efforts in Somalia in 1992. The operation centred around the deployment of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) battalion group to Baidoa in south-central Somalia.
Operation Southern Focus Operation Southern Focus was a period in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq (called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in the United States) in which the military responses to violations of the southern Iraqi no-fly zones were increased, with more intensive bombing of air defense artillery installations and other military complexes. It also marked a period of increased intelligence gathering.
Operation Southern Watch Operation Southern Watch was a operation conducted by Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) with the mission of monitoring and controlling airspace south of the 33rd Parallel in Iraq, following the 1991 Gulf War up until the March, 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Operation Spanner Operation Spanner was the name of an operation carried out by police in Manchester in the United Kingdom in 1987. The police had obtained a video which they believed depicted acts of sadistic torture, and they launched a murder investigation, convinced that the people in the video were being tortured before being killed.
Operation Spark (1940) Operation Spark was the name given to a plan generated in the early 1940s by German anti-Nazis to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Another Operation Spark was conducted by the Red Army during the siege of Leningrad in 1943.
Operation Spark (1943) Operation Spark (1943) was a military operation by the Red Army during January 12 —January 18, 1943 which intended to create a land connection to break the siege of Leningrad conducted by the German Wehrmacht.
Operation Spectrum Operation Spectrum was launched in 1987 by Singapore's Internal Security Department (ISD) using its Internal Security Act (ISA). The security operation saw 22 young Roman Catholic church and social activists and professionals detained, without trial, under the internal security law, accused of being members of a dangerous Marxist conspiracy bent on subverting the PAP-ruled government by force, and replacing it with a Marxist state.
Operation Speedwell During World War II, Operation Speedwell was an early Special Air Service raid against Italian rail targets near Genoa starting on 7 September, 1943. The fourteen-man group split into a number of smaller units to destroy track and ambush trains.
Operation Stack Operation Stack is the codename used by Kent Police and the Port of Felixstowe to refer to the method of using sections of the M20 motorway in Kent or A14 road to park lorries when the channel or Felixstowe ports are blocked by bad weather or industrial action.
Operation Stalemate During World War II, Operation Stalemate was the American amphibious invasion of Peleliu in the western Carolines. The 1st Marine Division landed on 15 September, 1944 and faced an especially well-prepared force of six thousand Japanese defenders.
Operation Staunch The Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the hostage crisis in Tehran frustrated American policy makers whose response came as an embargo on the new government of Iran. On January 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, the hostages in Tehran were released.
Operation Stealth Operation Stealth, also known as James Bond 007: The Stealth Affair in the United States, is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, released in 1990. The game is mainly the work of Paul Cuisset (programming) and Jean Baudlot (sound).
Operation Steel Tiger Operation Steel Tiger was a covert US Air Force aerial interdiction effort targeted against the infiltration of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) men and materiel moving from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam through southeastern Laos during the Vietnam Conflict.
Operation Stella Polaris Operation Stella Polaris was cover name for activity where Finnish signals intelligence records, equipment and personnel were transported into Sweden after ending of Continuation war 1944. Threat of Soviet occupation were considered too possible and operation was formed to support guerrilla warfare in Finland after occupation.
Operation Storm Operation Storm (Croatian: Operacija Oluja, Serbian: Oпeрaциja Oлуja) was a large-scale military operation carried out by Croatia, in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to recapture areas of central Croatia held by Croatian Serb forces. After only four days of fighting, with light military casualties on both sides, it ended in a decisive victory for the Croatians.
Operation STRUCTURE Operation Structure as the Canadian Forces humanitarian aid response to the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004. The operation carried out by the Disaster Assistance Response Team was deployed on January 2 and ended on February 19, 2005.
Operation Sumatra Assist Operation Sumatra Assist was the Australian Defence Force's (ADFs) contribution to disaster relief in Indonesia following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. ADF personnel were deployed within hours of the earthquake.
Operation Summer Nights OPERATION SUMMER NIGHTS is an initiative operation run from 28 April - 1 September each year by Lancashire Constabulary to tackle Alcohol-related crime and anti-social behaviour, criminal damage and domestic violence.
Operation Sundevil Operation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide United States Secret Service crackdown on "illegal computer hacking activities". Along with the Chicago Task Force and the Arizona Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau, they conducted raids in Austin, Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Tucson, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco.
Operation Sutton During the 1982 Falklands War, Operation Sutton was the British landings at Ajax Bay and Port San Carlos, near the San Carlos settlements on East Falkland Island. During the night 3 Commando Brigade with attached units of the Parachute Regiment were landed from the liner SS Canberra and the LPD HMS Fearless.
Operation SUPPORT Operation SUPPORT is the name given to Canadian Forces activities directly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The CF had two immediate goals: to provide support for stranded aircrew and passengers from diverted commercial flights, and to increase emergency preparedness.
Operation Sweeny During the Iraq War, Operation Sweeny was a counter-smuggling sweep of the Al Faw Peninsula and nearby waters conducted beginning on 15 October 2003. Elements of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, operating from the USS Peleliu, used small boats and landed units to capture a number of persons, boats and trucks smuggling fuel out of Iraq.
Operation theory In logic and mathematics, a finitary operation ω is a function of the form ω : X1 × … × Xk → Y. The sets Xj are the called the domains of the operation, the set Y is called the codomain of the operation, and the fixed non-negative integer k is called the arity of the operation.
Operation Tailwind Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion into southeastern Laos by a company-size element (Hatchet Force) of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACSOG or SOG) conducted between 11 September and 13 September 1970, during the Vietnam Conflict. The purpose of the operation was to create a diversion for a Royal Lao Army offensive and to exert pressure on the defenses of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
Operation Tannenberg Operation Tannenberg () was the codename for one of the extermination actions directed at the Polish people during World War II, part of the Generalplan Ost. Conscription lists (Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen) identified more than 61,000 Polish activists, intelligentsia, actors, former officers, etc who were to be interned or shot.
Operation Telic Operation (or Op) TELIC is the codename under which all British operations of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and after are being conducted. A total of 46,000 troops of all the British Services were committed to the operation at its start.
Operation Ten-Go Operation Ten-Go (Kyūjitai: , Shinjitai: ten-gō sakusen), also referred to as Ten-ichi-go (meaning Operation Heaven One) was the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific campaign of World War II. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, along with nine other Japanese warships, embarked from Japan on a deliberate suicide attack upon Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa.
Operation Tennessee Waltz Operation Tennessee Waltz was a sting operation set up by federal and state law enforcement agents, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The operation led to the arrest of seven Tennessee state lawmakers and two men identified as "bagmen" in the indictment on the morning of May 26, 2005 on bribery charges.
Operation Terminal Operation Terminal was an Allied operation during World War II. Part of Operation Torch (the Allied invasion of West Africa, 8 November 1942) it involved a direct landing of infantry into the Vichy French port of Algiers with the intention of capturing the port facilities before they could be destroyed.
Operation Texas In 1938 Lyndon Baines Johnson, then a Congressman and later the 36th President of the United States of America, worked to establish a refuge in Texas for European Jews fleeing Nazi occupied Germany. Johnson helped hundreds of European Jews enter Texas through Cuba, Mexico and South America.
Operation Tidal Wave Operation Tidal Wave was a World War II aerial bombardment operation by the United States Ninth Air Force to destroy the oil refineries that surrounded the city of PloieĹźti in Romania, on August 1 1943. The operation was devised by Colonel (later General) Jacob E.
Operation Tonga Operation Tonga was the codename given to the landing of the British 6th Airborne Division on the eastern flank of the invasion area during the Battle of Normandy on the night of the 5/6 June 1944. The objective was to help to defend the flank primarily by capturing and holding the only crossing of the Orne River north of the town of Caen.
Operation TOUCAN (KGB) Operation TOUCAN was a KGB/DGI public relations and disinformation campaign directed at the military government of Chile led by Augusto Pinochet. According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin, the plot was originally conceived by Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov.
Operation Tractable Operation Tractable was a military operation commanded by the 2nd Canadian Corps in Normandy in August 1944. Its aim was to break German defenses blocking the Caen to Falaise highway and to allow the British 2nd Army to break out of the Normandy bridgehead.
Operation Transom During World War II, Operation Transom was a naval air attack on Japanese targets on Java by American and British carrier planes. This marked the first important use of the British Fleet Air Arm in the Pacific.
Operation Tremor Operation Tremor is a joint operation between British Transport Police, Lancashire Constabulary and Network Rail to combat thieves who have been stealing copper boilers and piping and taking copper cables from train tracks, which can disable signalling equipment and safety devices. Some of the wire is used to carry information for automatic signalling and safety equipmentOperational Police officers.
Operation Trident Operation Trident, now referred to as just Trident, is a Metropolitan Police Service initiative set up to deal with gun crime in London's black community. It was set up in March 1998 following a series of shootings in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Brent.
Operation Trident (Indo-Pakistani War) Operation Trident and its follow up Operation Python were naval attacks launched on Pakistan's port city of Karachi by the Indian Navy during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Casualties of the Pakistan Navy included PNS Khyber, a destroyer, and PNS Muhafiz, a minesweeper, which were sunk.
Operation Trishul Operation Trishul, along with Operation Viraat, was an anti-insurgency operation launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in April 1988 in Northern Sri Lanka, in the provinces of Mannar to Mullaitivu and Elephant Pass to Vavuniya.Shifting to the Jungles.
Operation Tumbler-Snapper Operation Tumbler-Snapper was a series of atomic tests conducted by the United States in the spring of 1952 at the Nevada Test Site. The Tumbler-Snapper Series of tests preceded Operation Ivy, and followed Operation Buster-Jangle.
Operation Tupac Operation Tupac is the designation of the three part action plan for the liberation of Kashmir, initiated by President Zia Ul Haq in 1988 after the failure of "Operation Gibraltar". The designation is derived from Tupac Amru, the 18th century prince who led the war of liberation in Uruguay against the Spanish rule.
Operation United Shield Operation United Shield was the name given to the US military operation of evacuating all remaining 6,200 UN peacekeeping troops from Somalia from January to March of 1995, the troops were made up of Americans, Pakistanis and Egyptians. (Indian, Zimbabwean, and Malaysian units had already disengaged in late 1994).
Operation Unthinkable Operation Unthinkable was a plan ordered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and developed by the British Armed Forces at the end of World War II. The primary goal of the operation was declared as follows: "to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and the British Empire.
Operation Uranus Operation Uranus was the World War II Soviet encirclement of German forces during the Battle of Stalingrad. The double envelopment was launched on November 19, 1942 with twin attacks that met at Kalach four days later.
Operation Valiant Strike Operation Valiant Strike was a major American military ground operation in Afghanistan announced on 19 March 2003. It involved 600 men of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, along with Romanian and Afghani troops.
Operation Varsity Operation Varsity was an airborne operation towards the end of World War II, intended to gain a foothold across the River Rhine in western Germany as a part of Operation Plunder. It involved two divisions and 1,700 transport aircraft.
Operation Verano Operation Verano {28 June, 1958-8 August, 1958} was the name given to the summer offensive in 1958 by the Batista government during the Cuban Revolution. The offensive was designed to crush Fidel Castro's revolutionary army, who had been growing in strength in the area of the Sierra Maestra hills since their arrival in Cuba onboard the Granma yacht in December 1956.
Operation Veritable Operation Veritable was the northern part of the Second World War pincer movement by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group to clear the land between the Rhine and Roer rivers. General Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied Commander, had decided that the best route into Germany would be across the relatively flat lands of northern Europe.
Operation Veritas Operation Veritas was the codename used for British military operations against the Taliban government of Afghanistan in 2001. British forces very much played a supporting role to the American Operation Enduring Freedom.
Operation Vigorous Operation Vigorous was a World War II operation to deliver a supply convoy (MW-11) that sailed from Haifa and Port Said on the 12th June 1942 to Malta. The convoy encountered heavy air and sea opposition and returned to Alexandria on the 16th June.
Operation Vijay (1999) In the 1999 Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan, Operation Vijay (Victory in Hindi) was the name of the successful Indian operation to push back the infiltrators from the Kargil Sector. It is sometimes referred to as Operation Vijay Kargil.
Operation Viraat Operation Trishul , along with Operation Trishul, was an anti-insurgency operation launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in April 1988 in Northern Sri Lanka, in the provinces of Mannar to Mullaitivu and Elephant Pass to Vavuniya.Shifting to the Jungles.
Operation Vulcan During World War II, Operation Vulcan was the final ground attack against German forces in Tunis, Cap Bon and Bizerte, the last Axis toeholds in north Africa. Erwin Rommel believed that the Axis position in Tunisia was untenable and he had recommended the evacuation of German troops to Italy, where he believed they could be more useful.
Operation Vulture Operation Vulture was the name of the proposed American operation that would rescue French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 via B-29 raids. The French garrison had been surrounded by the communist and nationalist Viet Minh during the French Indochina War.
Operation Wallacea Operation Wallacea is an international NGO that operates volunteer-led scientific conservation expeditions to several countries around the world. Volunteers come from a wide range of backgrounds and professions to assist university academics in both research and conservation programs in partnership with local communities and NGO's.
Operation Weasel Operation Weasel is the name given to an alleged secret operation involving the governments of Nauru, New Zealand, and the United States. The exact nature of the operation, if it did indeed exist, is subject to disagreement — most accounts link it to investigations into the sale of Nauruan passports, the defection of North Korean scientists to the West, or both.
Operation Web Tryp Operation Web Tryp was a United States Drug Enforcement Administration operation that ended on July 21, 2004 with the arrests of 10 persons. Its purpose was to investigate web sites suspected of distribution of unscheduled, unregulated tryptamines and phenethylamines of questionable legality.
Operation WeserĂĽbung Operation WeserĂĽbung was the German codename for Nazi Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during World War II and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign. (The term means Weser Exercise or Operation Weser, the Weser being a German river.
Operation Wetback Operation Wetback was a 1954 project of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to remove about 80,000 illegal immigrants from the southwestern United States, with a focus on Mexican nationals. Mexican citizens residing in the U.
Operation Whale Operation Whale ("Unternehmen Wal" or "Unternehmen Walfisch" in German) was the name of two separate German Intelligence (Abwehr) plans conceived in 1940.Wal & Walfisch have the same meaning in the German language.
Operation Whitecoat Operation Whitecoat was the name given to a secret operation carried out by the US Army during the period 1954-1973, which included conducting medical experiments on volunteers nicknamed "White Coats". The volunteers, many members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, consented to the research before participating.
Operation Wikinger Operation Wikinger was a sortie into the North Sea by the 1st Destroyer Flotilla of the Kriegsmarine, in February 1940. During this operation, poor inter-service communication and cooperation between the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe and inexperience resulted in the loss of two German ships through friendly fire bombing and German or British mines.
Operation Wilfred Operation Wilfred was a British scheme to mine the waters between Norway and her islands in order to prevent German convoys from using the neutral waters to transport high grade Swedish iron ore. The Allies assumed that Wilfred would provoke a German response in Norway.
Operation Willi Operation Willi was the German code name for the unsuccessful attempt by the SS to kidnap Edward, Duke of Windsor in July 1940 and induce him to work with Adolf Hitler for either a peace settlement with Britain, or a restoration to the throne after the German conquest of Great Britain.
Operation Wintergewitter Operation Winter Storm (German Unternehmen Wintergewitter) was the German Fourth Panzer Army's attempt to relieve the German Sixth Army from encirclement during the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. The operation commenced on 12 December 1942 and was able to advance just halfway to its objective before a Soviet outflanking move further to the north forced the relief force to break off and withdraw, dooming the Sixth Army to defeat and capture.
Operation Wisła Operation Wisła () was the codename for the 1947 deportation of southeastern Poland's Ukrainian, Boyko and Lemko populations, carried out by the Polish Army. Over 140,000 people, mostly of Ukrainian ethnicity, residing in southeastern Poland were, often forcibly, resettled to the "Recovered Territories" in the north and west of the country.
Operation Wrath of God Operation Wrath of God (Hebrew: מבצע זעם האל, Mivtzah Zaam Ha'el),This title was an invention of later writers, and was most likely not used by the Mossad itself.also called Operation Bayonet,[http://news.
Operation Yellow Ribbon Operation Yellow Ribbon is the name of the operation that Transport Canada created to handle the diversion of civilian airline flights following the September 11, 2001 attacks. The operation started after the FAA grounded all aircraft across the United States and re-routed incoming international flights to airports in Canada.
Operation Yoav Operation Yoav (also called Operation Ten Plagues or Operation Yo'av) was an Israeli military operation carried out from 15 October - 22 October, 1948 in the Negev Desert, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Its goal was to drive a wedge between the Egyptian forces along the coast and the Beersheba-Hebron-Jerusalem road and ultimately to conquer the whole Negev.
Operation Zeppelin (Allies) During World War II, Operation Zeppelin was a deception plan carried out by the Allies designed to depict a potential amphibious landing on Crete, western Greece, or the Romanian Black Sea coast. It was carried out in the time preceding the invasion of Normandy.
Operation Zeppelin (Assassination Plot) Operation Zeppelin was the name of an elaborate German plan to assassinate Josef Stalin in Moscow. It was conceived in July 1944 when Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who succeeded Reinhard Heydrich as head of the RSHA, asked the Luftwaffe's KG 200 unit if they could land a man within 60 miles from Moscow, far in advance of the German front lines at that time.
Operation Zet Operation Zet was a secret operation of the Soviet Union to provide military and technical resources to the Republic of China as a part of the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Under the name of Soviet Air Force Volunteers, Soviet troops fought in the defense of Nanjing, Wuhan,Nanchang and Chongqing
Operation Zone of the Adriatic Littoral The Operation Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (; ), was a Nazi German puppet district on the Adriatic coast including parts of present-day Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia during World War II. It was administered as part of the Reichsgau of Carinthia.
Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills The Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills (; ) was a Nazi German puppet district in the Alpine foothills created in territory seized from Italy during World War II. It was administered as part of the Reichsgau of Tyrol-Vorarlberg.
Operation: Blockade Operation: Blockade is a 2002 first person shooter video game developed by Screaming Games and published by Infogames for the PC and arcade systems. Set in a mock World War II environment, the game has online capabilities, and was released to mediocre reviews and criticism.
Operation: Doomsday Operation: Doomsday is the debut full-length solo album by Daniel Dumile under his MF DOOM alias, released as CD & 2/LP on Fondle 'Em Records in January of 1999 (see 1999 in music), and reissued by Sub Verse on CD & 2/LP in 2001 with a slightly altered track list The CD went out of print sometime between 2003 and 2004, quickly becoming an expensive collector's item, while the LP stayed in print for much longer.
Operation: Galactic Storm Operation: Galactic Storm was a 19-part comic book crossover storyline which ran through Marvel Comics' Avengers related titles - Avengers, Avengers West Coast, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Wonder Man and Quasar - between March and May of 1992.
Operation: Groundhog Operation: Groundhog was far and away the children at Kenwood's most elaborate plan by which to transport, contain, and maintain the use of alcohol at Kenwood. Launched from September 1-4 2006, the plan was the brainchild of a member of the Matthews clan, whose identity will remain a secret to protect him from any enemy forces (such as that of the PPP).
Operation: Red Crime Operation: Red Crime is a satyric movie, that criticizes a number of Hollywood films, mainly Mafia films like 'The Godfather', 'Goodfellas', 'The Sopranos' and other very famous films including 'Star Wars', 'The Matrix' etc.
Operation: Zero Tolerance Operation: Zero Tolerance was an event that transpired shortly after the Onslaught Saga in the Marvel Universe. It was a primary focus of most all of Marvel's mutant-centric titles (specifically those bearing an "X" in their title) throughout the summer of 1998.
Operational amplifier An operational amplifier, usually referred to as an 'op-amp' for brevity, is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with differential inputs and, usually, a single output. In its ordinary usage, the output of the op-amp is controlled by negative feedback which, because of the amplifier's high gain, almost completely determines the output voltage for any given input.
Operational amplifier applications This article illustrates some typical applications of solid-state integrated circuit operational amplifiers. A simplified schematic notation is used, and the reader is reminded that many details such as device selection and power supply connections are not shown.
Operational art Operational art is a methodology in military art that ultimately translates strategic aims into a coherent series of tactical missions. It has traditionally been associated with the operational level in the military hierarchy, which is situated between the strategic and tactical levels.
Operational Control Language Operational Control Language (OCL) is the control language of the IBM System/34 and System/36 minicomputer family. Other control languages include CL (System/38 and AS/400), JCL (System/370), and REXX (AS/400).

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