List of military missions, operations, and projects
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1.0 Operations
World War II
- Adler ("Eagle") – German air offensive against Britain, as a prelude to Seelöwe, 1940.
- ''Ambassador – British commando raid during World War II
- Artur ("Arthur") – German plan to support I.R.A activities in Northern Ireland and Ireland, 1941.
- Attila– German seizure and occupation of Vichy France, 1940.
- Avalanche-- Allied invasion of Sicily.
- ''Boardman Deception operation for Avalanche.
- Barbarossa – German invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941.
- Birke ("Birch") – German plan to withdraw from Northern Finland prior to the Lapland War, September 1944.
- Birkhahn ("Black Cock") – German withdrawl from Norway, 1945.
- Blau (Case Blue)-- German offensive in the southern USSR, 1942.
- Blücher – German campaign in the Caucasus, April 1942
- Bodenplatte ("Baseplate") – German aerial attack on 27 Allied airbases in Europe, January 1945.
- Bodyguard – the Allied strategic deception plan for the Normandy landings
- Chariot – the British raid on St Nazaire, March 1942
- Compass – the British counter-offensive in Egypt/Libya, December 1940
- Cooney – French commando raid.
- Coronet – Second of two prongs of the planned invasion of Japan, Downfall
- Dragoon--Allied invasion of Southern France.
- Epsom – British assault west of Caen, Normandy, 1944.
- Cerberus – Escape of German capital ships from Brest, France to home ports in Germany, February 12, 1942
- Cobra – American breakout from Normandy, 1944.
- Crusader – British attempt to relieve Tobruk (Libya), 1941.
- Deadlight – postwar scuttling of U-boats, 1945-1946.
- Downfall – planned Allied invasion of Japan.
- Donnerschlag ("Thunderbolt") – Planned breakout of the German 6th Army from Stalingrad, December 1942.
- Downwood – attack on German dams in World War II.
- Dragoon – Allied landing in southern France, 1944.
- Drumbeat – German U-boat attack on east coast shipping of US, 1942.
- Dynamo – The Evacuation from Dunkirk
- Edelweiss – Proposed capture of the oil fields of Baku in the Caucasus by Axis forces, July 1942.
- Eisenhammer – Luftwaffe code name for a plan to destroy Soviet generating plants in the Moscow and Gorky areas in 1943. (Not the same as Operation Iron Hammer.)
- Fall Blau (Case Blue)-- German offensive in the southern USSR, 1942.
- Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") – German offensive against western Europe, 1940.
- Fall Gruen (Case Green) the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
- Fall Weiss ("Case White") – German invasion of Poland, 1939.
- Felix – Planned German invasion of Gibraltar via Spain, 1940-1941.
- Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") – Planned German capture of Leningrad, 1942.
- Fischereiher ("Heron") – German offensive to capture Stalingrad, 1942.
- Fortitude – Allied deception of Germany, 1944.
- Frühlingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") – Last German counterattack against Russian forces in Hungary, March 1945.
- Goodwood – British breakout attempt in Normandy (France), 1944.
- ''Greif--("Grab") German troops disguised as Allied soldiers capture bridges across the River Meuse in the Ardennes (Luxembourg and France), 1944.
- Grün [1] ("Green") – The Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.
- Grün [2] ("Green") – Decoy invasion of Ireland in conjunction with Seelöwe, 1940.
- Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") – Decoy invasion of Scotland in conjunction with Seelöwe, 1940.
- Herkules – Planned Axis airborne invasion of Malta, 1942.
- Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine") – German counteroffensive in the Ardennes (Luxembourg and France), 1944.
- Husky – Allied invasion of Sicily, 1943.
- Icarus – Planned German invasion of Iceland, 1940.
- Lightfoot – first attack by British at El Alamein, 1942.
- Marita – German invasion of Greece, 1941.
- Lost – British commando raid in Brittany, June, 1944.
- Margarethe – German operation to keep Hungary from falling to Russia and defecting to the Allies, in March 1944.
- Manhattan Engineer District
- Market Garden – Allied airborne attempt to gain a Rhine crossing in the Netherlands, 1944.
- Merkur ("Mercury") – German invasion of Crete, 1941.
- Mondscheinsonate ("Moonlight Sonata") – German aerial raid on Coventry, November 1940.
- Morgenrote ("Dawn") – German counterattack against Anzio landings, January 1944.
- Narcissus – British commando raid.
- Nordlicht [1] ("Northern Lights") – Planned German assault on Lenningrad, 1942.
- Nordlicht [2] ("Northern Lights") – German withdrawal from the Kola Peninsula and Finland into Norway in 1944.
- Nordwind ("North Wind") – German offensive in the Alsace region, January 1945.
- Olympic – First of two prongs of the invasion of Japan part of Downfall.
- Overlord – Allied landings in Normandy (France), 1944.
- Bodyguard, Overall deception plan.
- Detroit, American airdrop in Normany.
- Chicago, American airdrop in Normandy.
- Dingson Free French Commando raid.
- Tonga, British airdrop in Normandy.
- Neptune, Overall Allied naval operations for the invasion.
- Maple, Allied naval minesweeping operations.
- Gambit, British midget submarine operations.
- Paperclip - a part-military, part-scientific operation to gain information out of Nazi scientists after the Second World War.
- Platinfuchs ("Platinum Fox") – German attack towards Murmansk from Finnish Petsamo as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
- Polarfuchs ("Polar Fox") – German attack towards Kandalaksha from Finnish Lapland as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
- Renntier ("Reindeer") – German occupation of Finnish Petsamo in 1941.
- Rheinübung ("Exercise Rhine") – German attacks on Allied shipping conducted by the ships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, 1941.
- Rösselsprung [1] ("Knights Move") – German naval campaign to sink Allied Arctic convoys between Britain and Russia, 1942.
- Rösselsprung [2] ("Knights Move") – German attempt to capture partisan leader Tito at his Bosnian HQ, May 1944.
- Roundup – Planned Allied landings in France, 1942.
- Seelöwe ("Sea Lion") – Planned German invasion of Great Britain, 1940.
- Shingle--Allied invasion of Sicily.
- ''Chettyford Deception plan to support Shingle.
- Sledgehammer – Planned Allied landings in France, 1942.
- Sonneblume The movement of German troops to north Africa as a result of the British Operation Compass attack.
- Sonnenwende ("Winter Solstice") – German offensive to relieve Pomerania from Russian forces and halt advance on Berlin, February 1945.
- Supercharge – second attack by British at El Alamein, 1942.
- Tanne Ost – Failed German attempt to capture Suursaari from Finland in 1944.
- Tanne West – Planned German attempt to capture Åland from Finland in 1944.
- Theseus – German offensive to drive Allies out of Cyrenaica and Egypt, 1942.
- Torch – American landings in North Africa, 1942.
- Totalize – Allied effort to trap German armor in Normandy, 1944.
- Typhoon – German autumn offensive to capture Moscow, October 1941.
- ''Weiss-- German invasion of Poland.
- Watchtower – US counterinvasion of Guadalcanal, 1942.
- Weserübung ("Weser Exercise") – German invasions of Denmark and Norway, April 1940.
- Wintergewitter ("Winter Storm") – German attempt to relief encircled 6th Army in Stalingrad (Russia), 1942.
- Zitadelle ("Citadel") – German counteroffensive at Kursk (Russia), 1943.
Cold War Era
- Agatha – 1946 British attack on Hagana and Irgun in Palestine
- Ajax--Anglo-British plan for the 1953 coup in Iran.
- Anadyr – USSR plan to base nuclear weapons in Cuba; the cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Argus – detonation of nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere, 1959.
- Attila – Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus, 1974.
- El Dorado Canyon – US strikes against Libya, 1986.
- Entebbe - Israeli Entebbe operation 1976
- Evening Light – US attempt to rescue embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran, 1980.
- Gold – Covert Amrican tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
- Golden Pheasant – US deployment in Honduras, 1988.
- Jonathan – rescue of hostages at Entebbe, Uganda in 1976.
- Just Cause – US invasion of Panama, 1989.
- Mongoose – plan for information gathering, sabotage, civil insurrection and the overthrown of Cuba dictator Fidel Castro. 1962
- Northwoods - plan to incite war between United States and Cuba in 1960s
- Peter Pan - transfer of Cubans to United States in 1960-1962
- Power Pack – US deployment in Santo Domingo, 1965.
- Silver – Covert British tunnel in Austria.
- Suzannah - Israel plan to bomb American interests in Egypt in 1954
- Urgent Fury – US invasion of Grenada, 1983.
- Vittles – Berlin Airlift in 1948
Post-Cold War
- Addition – Canada's contribution to United Nations mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
- Anaconda – US effort to capture al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan.
- Apollo – Canadian Navy's operation in support of the United States forces in Afghanistan.
- Assistance – Canada's assistance in the province of Manitoba after major flooding in the spring of 1997
- Bljesak ("Flash") – Croatian offensive against western Slavonian parts of Krajina, 1995
- Bramble Bush Israeli plan to kill Saddam Hussein in 1992.
- Caravan – Canadian Forces contribution to the French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Central – Canada's assistance in Central America after devastation of Hurricane Mitch in 1998
- Chaperon – Canada's contribution to the United Nations of one military observer (UNMO)
- Constable – July 1997, Canada's contribution to United Nations mission in Haiti, to help build their national police
- Desert Shield – buildup prior to Gulf War, 1990.
- Desert Storm – Gulf War, 1991.
- Determination – Canada's forces deployed to Arabian Gulf to force Iraq to comply with United Nations inspection agreements, in early 1998
- Enduring Freedom, US and UK invasion of Afghanistan, 2001-2002.
- Anaconda – US effort to capture al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan.
- Apollo – Canadian Navy's operation in support of the United States forces in Afghanistan.
- Avalanche – a December [[2003 U.S-led offensive in Afghanistan.
- Haven Denial – U.S. and Italian forces against Taliban remnants and Al Qaeda fighters in southeast Afghanistan, July, 2003.
- Mountain Viper - U.S. and Afghan forces attacked suspected Taliban forces in Zabul province, Afghanistan, late August, 2003.
- Slipper The Royal Australian Navy's contribution to the invasion of Afghanistan.
- Warrior Sweep – the first major military operation of the Afghan National Army, July 23, 2003
- Essential Harvest – a month-long NATO mission of disarming ethnic Albanians in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2001.
- Forage – Canadian contribution to NATO Operation Essential Harvest
- Granby – British codename for operations during Gulf War in 1991.
- Harmony – Canada's contribution to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), which was created in February 1992 to ensure the protection and demilitarization of three "UN Protected Areas" in Croatia
- Haven Denial – U.S. and Italian forces against Taliban remnants and Al Qaeda fighters in southeast Afghanistan, July, 2003.
- Infinite Justice, original name for Enduring Freedom.
- Iraqi Freedom – coalition name for 2003 Iraq War.
- ''Bulldog Mammoth--American search of an apartment complex.
- Iron Hammer – U.S. forces in Iraq "ferreting out" the opposition. (Not the same as Operation Eisenhammer.)
- Ivy Blizzard A counter insurgency sweep by U.S. Forces.
- Ivy Cyclone II American operation near Tikrit.
- Operation Red Dawn American capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003.
- Rifles Blitz Border security operations in Iraq.
- Kinetic – Canada's contribution to NATO mission KFOR to secure Kosovo and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to provide humanitarian needs to displaced persons
- Megaphone – Canada's Department of National Defense work to return equipment used in Kosovo Operation Kinetic to Canada
- Mountain Viper - U.S. and Afghan forces attacked suspected Taliban forces in Zabul province, Afghanistan, late August, 2003.
- Oluja ("Storm") – Croatian offensive against Krajina, 1995
- Northern Watch – northern No-Fly Zone over Iraq, 1990s.
- Peace for Galilee - Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Peregrine - British Columbia, Canada forest fire fighting assitance by soldiers
- Persistence – Canada's mission in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia to recover bodies after crash of SwissAir Flight 111, on September 2, 1998
- Potkova ("Horseshoe") – Yugoslav army offensive against the KLA with the aim to drive out the Kosovar Albanians from Kosovo 1999
- Provide Comfort - provide security and humanitarian aid to Kurds in northern Iraq in 1991
- Quadrant – Canada's mission in Kosovo
- Record – Canada's mission to secure Iraq-Kuwait border after the 1991 Gulf War
- Recuperation – Canada's assistance after major snowstorm hits eastern Canada, January 4, 1998
- Sharp Edge – evacuation of Americans from Liberia, 1990-1991.
- Shining Express--evacuation of Americans from Liberia, 2003
- Southern Watch – southern No-Fly Zone over Iraq, 1990s.
- ''Slipper The Royal Australian Navy's contribution to the invasion of Afghanistan.
- Support – Canadian Forces operations of September 11, 2001 to September 14, 2001
- Telic – British codename for operations against Iraq in 2003.
- Torrent – Canada's assistance after devastating earthquake in Turkey, August 17, 1999
- Toucan – Canada's contribution to United Nations Internatonal Force in East Timor (INTERFET) and United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)
- Warrior Sweep – the first major military operation of the Afghan National Army, July 23, 2003
- Exercise Unified Spirite 2000 – A large NATO exercise held every two years to train the armed forces of member nations in joint and combined operations.
Other/Unknown
- Artisan – Canadian Forces contribution to the Rinas Airfield Rehabilitation Project in Tirana, Albania
- Echo – Canada sends air forces to Aviano, Italy to enforce a no-fly zone over Balkan region (UNSFOR) and (UNKFOR)
- Eclipse – Deployment of Canadian soldiers to east Africa in support of United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
- Fusion – Canada's combined contribution of Oprtation Allied Harmony and Operation Concordia
- Prudence – Canada's participation in the Mission des Nations Unies dans la République Centrafricaine (MINURCA)
Projects
- ''Avalanche American anti-Pedophilia effort.
- List of Nuclear Tests
- Operation Ore American led anti-Pedophilia effort.
- Operation Pin British-led anti-Pedophilia effort.
- Jennifer
- RAND
- Vanguard
Non-military operations
- Bojinka – terrorist plot by al-Qaida members Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, foiled in 1995
- Clambake – anti-Scientology