This is a list of missions, operations, and projects. Missions in support of other missions are not listed independently.
Operations
- Agreement (1942) — British landing in North Africa
- Alphabet (1940) evacuation of British troops from Norway
- Ambassador (1940) — British commando raid on Guernsey
- Amherst (1945) — British airborne raid in the Netherlands
- Anvil (1944) — invasion of Southern France. Name later changed to Dragoon
- Anthropoid (1942) — Czech-British plan for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
- Archery (1941) — British commando raid on Maaloy, Norway
- Artur ("Arthur") (1941) — German plan to support IRA activities
- Attila (1940) — German seizure and occupation of Vichy France
- Avalanche (1943) — Allied landings near Salerno, Italy
- Barbarossa (1941) — German invasion of the Soviet Union
- Silberfuchs ("Silver Fox") (1941) — German operations in the Arctic, including:
- Basalt (1942) — British raid on Sark
- Baytown — Allied landings in Calabria, Italy
- Bertram — part of the Second Battle of El Alamein
- Begonia (1943) — British POW rescue in Italy
- Birke ("Birch") (1944) — German plan to withdraw from northern Finland prior to the Lapland War
- Birkhahn ("Black Cock") (1945) — German withdrawal from Norway
- Biting (1942) — Commando raid on radar site in France
- Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) — German offensive in the southern USSR
- Blücher (1942) — German campaign in the Caucasus
- Bodenplatte ("Baseplate") (1945) — German aerial attack on 27 Allied airbases
- Büffel (1940) — German operation to relieve troops in Narvik, Norway.
- Burza ("Plan Burza", "Operation Tempest") (1944) — a series of local uprisings prepared by the Polish Home Army
- Candytuft (1943) — British raid on the Italian east coast
- Canuck (1945) — SAS operation near Turin
- Cartwheel (1943) — Allied thrusts in the South West Pacific Area, aimed at isolating the major Japanese base at Rabaul.
- Cerberus (1942) — escape of German capital ships from Brest to home ports in Germany
- Chariot (1942) — British raid on Saint Nazaire
- Chastise (1943) — attack on German dams
- Clawhammer (1942) — planned commando raid on a radar site in France
- Claymore (1941) — British raid on Norwegian islands
- Cobra (1944) — American breakout from Normandy
- Dunhill (1944) — SAS operations in Normandy to support Cobra
- Cold Comfort (1945) — British raid on rail lines in Italy
- Colossus (1941) — airborne raid against rail targets in Italy
- Compass (1940) — British counteroffensive in North Africa
- Cooney — French commando raid
- Cornflakes (1945) — American clandestine insertion of propaganda into the German mail system
- Crusader (1941) — British attempt to relieve Tobruk
- Deadlight (1945) — postwar scuttling of U-boats
- Defoe (1944) — SAS patrols in Normandy
- Detachment (1945) — US invasion of Iwo Jima
- Donnerschlag ("Thunderclap") (1942) — planned breakout of the German 6th Army from Stalingrad
- Downfall (1945) — planned invasion of Japan
- Olympic (planned for 1945, not executed) — first of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
- Coronet (planned for 1946, not executed) — second of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
- Dragoon (1944) — Allied landing in southern France
- Driftwood (1944) — failed raid on rail targets north of Rome
- Drumbeat (1942) — German U-boat attack on east coast shipping of the United States
- Dynamo (1940) — British evacuation from Dunkirk
- Edelweiss (1942) — proposed German capture of the oil fields of Baku
- Eisenhammer (1943) — plan to destroy Soviet power generators in Moscow and Gorky (not the same as Iron Hammer)
- Epsom (1944) — British assault west of Caen, Normandy
- Fall Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) — German offensive in the southern USSR
- Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") (1940) — German offensive against western Europe
- Fall Grün ("Case Green") (1938) — the German invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Fall Rot ("Case Red") (1935) — German defense plan in case of an incursion by France when Czechoslovakia is invaded
- Fall Weiss ("Case White") (1939) — German invasion of Poland
- Fall Weiss ("Case White") (1942) — German counter-partisan operation in Croatia
- Felix (1940–41) — planned German invasion of Gibraltar
- Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") (1942) — planned German capture of Leningrad
- Fischreiher ("Heron") (1942) — German offensive to capture Stalingrad
- Fortitude (1944) — Allied deception in Europe
- Foxley (year?) — a plan to kill Adolf Hitler that was never carried out
- Frankton (1942) — commando raid on shipping port in France
- Frantic (1943) — The use of Soviet airfields by western Allied bombers.
- Frühlingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") (1945) — German counterattack against Russian forces in Hungary
- Gaff (1944) — attempt to kill Erwin Rommel
- Gauntlet (1941) — raid on Spitzbergen
- Gomorrah (1943) British air attack on Hamburg.
- Goodwood (1944) — British breakout attempt from Normandy
- Greif ("Grab") (1944) — German troops disguised as Allied soldiers during Battle of the Bulge
- Grenade (1945) — US Ninth Army crossing of the Roer (see also Veritable)
- Grün [1] ("Green") (1938) — the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Grün [2] ("Green") (1940) — decoy invasion of Ireland in conjunction with Seelöwe
- Gunnerside (1943) — raid on a Norwegian heavy water plant
- Project Habbakuk (1943) — project to construct an aircraft carrier out of ice
- Operation Herbstnebel
- Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") (1940) — decoy invasion of Scotland
- Herkules (1942) — planned Axis airborne invasion of Malta
- Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine") (1944) — German counteroffensive in the Ardennes (in Belgium, Luxembourg and France); the Battle of the Bulge
- Husky (1943) — Allied invasion of Sicily
- Iceberg (1945) — US invasion of Okinawa
- Ikarus (1940) — planned German invasion of Iceland
- Ironclad The Battle of Madagascar
- Juno (1940) — German naval operation to disturb allied supplies to Norway.
- Lachsfang (1942) — Proposed combined German and Finnish attack against against Kandalaksha and Belomorsk.
- Lightfoot (1942) — first attack by the British at El Alamein
- Lost (1944) — British raid on Brittany
- Loyton (1944) — large SAS patrol in French mountains
- Marita (1941) — German invasion of Greece
- Margarethe (1944) — German operation to keep Hungary from defecting
- Manhattan Project (1941–1945) — American program to build an atomic bomb
- Market Garden (1944) — Allied airborne attempt to cross the lower Rhine
- Matador (1941) — Planned British pre-emptive move into Siam from Malaya
- Merkur ("Mercury") (1941) — German invasion of Crete
- Mondscheinsonate ("Moonlight Sonata") (1940) — German aerial raid on Coventry
- Morgenrote ("Dawn") (1944) — German counterattack against Anzio landings
- Narcissus (1943) — British commando raid
- Nelson (1944) — cancelled SAS patrol in France
- Newton (1944) — SAS raid in France
- Nordlicht [1] ("Northern Lights") (1942) — planned German assault on Leningrad
- Nordlicht [2] ("Northern Lights") (1944) — German withdrawal from the Kola Peninsula into Norway
- Nordwind ("North Wind") (1945) — German offensive in the Alsace
- Overlord (1944) — Allied landings in Normandy
- Pegasus (1944) — Allied rescue of troops after failure of Market Garden
- Paperclip (1945) — part-military, part-scientific operation to scoop up Nazi scientists, engineers, experiments, prototypes, data, etc., after WWII
- Paukenschlag ("Beat of the Kettle Drum") (1942) — German U-boat offensive on the east coast of the United States
- Pedestal Allied convoy to Malta.
- Plunder (1945) — British crossing of the Rhine
- Pluto (1944) — construction of undersea oil pipelines between England and France
- Reinhard (1943) — German reprisals for Anthropoid
- Renntier ("Reindeer") (1941) — German occupation of Finnish Petsamo
- Rheinübung ("Exercise Rhine") (1941) — German attacks on Allied shipping conducted by Bismarck and Prinz Eugen
- Rösselsprung [1] ("Knights Move") (1942) — German naval campaign to sink Arctic convoys
- Rösselsprung [2] ("Knights Move") (1944) — German attempt to capture Josip Broz Tito
- Roundup (1942) — planned Allied landings in France
- Saturn (1942) — Major Soviet attack
- Seelöwe ("Sea Lion") (1940) — planned German invasion of Britain
- Adler ("Eagle") — German air offensive
- Grün [2] ("Green") (1940) — decoy invasion of Ireland in conjunction with Seelöwe
- Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") — decoy invasion of Scotland in conjunction with Seelöwe.
- Shingle (1944) — Allied landings at Anzio
- Baobab — commando raid in support of Shingle
- Chettyford — deception plan to support Shingle
- Pomegranate (1944) — Raid in support of Shingle
- Sizilien (1943) — German raid upon allied occupied Spitzbergen (Svalbard)
- Slapstick (1944) Part of Baytown, the invasion of mainland Italy.
- Sledgehammer (1942) — planned Allied landings in France
- Sonneblume (Sun Flower) — movement of German troops to north Africa as a result of the British Compass
- Sonnenwende ("Winter Solstice") (1945) — German offensive to relieve Pomerania from Russian forces and halt advance on Berlin
- Starvation (1945) — American aerial mining of Japanese ports and waterways.
- Stösser (1944) — Airborne drop in support of the Battle of the Bulge
- Supercharge (1942) — second attack by British at El Alamein
- Tabarin (1943) — British Antarctic expedition
- Taifun ("Typhoon") (1941) — German autumn offensive to capture Moscow
- Tanne Ost (1944 ) — failed German attempt to capture Suursaari from Finland
- Tanne West (1944) — planned German attempt to capture the Åland Islands from Finland
- Tannenbaum — The planned German invasion of Switzerland.
- Theseus (1942) — German offensive to drive Allies out of Cyrenaica and Egypt
- Ten-Go (1945) Japanese naval sortie.
- Tiger (1944) — Allied training prior D-Day, near Slapton, England
- Tombola (1945) — SAS raid in Italy
- Torch (1942) — Allied landings in North Africa
- Totalize (1944) — Allied effort to trap German armor in Normandy
- Valkyrie (1944) — bomb plot to kill Hitler
- Ultra — British effort to break German codes.
- Veritable (1945) — Canadian First Army crossing of the Roer (see also Grenade)
- Watchtower (1942) — U.S. invasion of Guadalcanal
- Weserübung ("Weser Exercise") (1940) — German invasion of Denmark and Norway
- Wintergewitter ("Winter Storm") (1942) — German attempt to relieve encircled 6th Army at Stalingrad.
- Operation Zipper\Zipper (1945) Planned British attack in Burma.
- Zitadelle ("Citadel") (1943) — German counteroffensive at Kursk
- Zitronella (1943) — German raid against a Norwegian/British station on Svalbard.
- Zombie (1941) — airborne raid against rail targets in Italy.
Cold War Era
- Agatha (1946) — British attack on Hagana and Irgun in Palestine
- Ajax (1953) — Anglo-British plan for coup in Iran
- Anadyr — Soviet plan to base nuclear weapons in Cuba; the cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Arc Light — US B-52 bombing campaign in Vietnam
- Operation Anvil (1954) — British counter-insurgency operation in Nairobi during the Mau Mau Uprising
- Argus (1959) — test of nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere.
- Askari (1983) — South African attack on SWAPO and FAPLA forces in Angola.
- Attila (1974) — Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus
- Balak (1948) — smuggling of arms to Israel
- Blowdown (1963) — Australia/US/UK simulated nuclear explosion in a rain forest.
- Carnation (1981) — South African skirmishes with SWAPO forces along the Angolan border.
- Chromite (1950) — U.S. invasion of Inchon during the Korean War.
- Claret (1964) — British patrols into Indonesia
- Dingo (1977) — Rhodesian attack on camps in Mozambique.
- El Dorado Canyon (1986) — US strikes against Libya
- Earnest Will (1987-88) — American protection of Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War
- Praying Mantis (1988) — U.S. retaliates against Iran for mining frigate.
- Prime Chance (1987-88) — Special operations to protect Kuwaiti tankers, run largely from barges in the northern Persian Gulf.
- Entebbe (1976) — Israeli rescue operation at Entebbe, Uganda. Later renamed Jonathan
- Evening Light (1980) — U.S. attempt to rescue embassy hostages in Tehran
- Fortune — 1951 CIA plan for a coup in Guatemala. Executed as Success
- Gold (1954) — covert American tunnel under the Berlin Wall
- Golden Pheasant (1988) — U.S. deployment in Honduras
- Horev (1948) — Israeli attack in northern Israel
- Jonathan (1976) — Israeli rescue of hostages at Entebbe, Uganda
- Jock Scott (1952) — British rounding up of suspected insurgents at the beginning of the Mau Mau Uprising
- Just Cause (1989) — U.S. invasion of Panama
- Klipklop (1980) — South African disruption of SWAPO logistics in Angola.
- Litani (1978) — Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
- Meebos (1982) — South African destruction of SWAPO's "East Front" HQ at Mupa, Angola.
- Mongoose (1962) — plan for information gathering, sabotage, civil insurrection and the overthrown of the Cuban government.
- Neptune (1964) Soviet-led counterintelligence operation.
- Nimrod (1980) — rescue of hostages in the Iranian embassy, London
- Northwoods (1960s) — plan to incite war between the United States and Cuba.
- Nuclear testing List of all known named nuclear tests.
- Orion (1960) — DARPA project to design a nuclear pulse propulsion system
- Peter Pan (1960s) — transfer of Cubans to the U.S.
- Phoenix (1983) — South African response to mass SWAPO infiltration of South-West Africa
- Power Pack (1965) — U.S. deployment in the Dominican Republic
- Protea (1981) — South African attack on SWAPO bases near Ongiva and Xangongo, Angola.
- Provide Comfort (1991) — relief effort in northern Iraq
- Reforger Annual American exercise to REturn FORces to GERmany
- Rekstok (1979) — South African attack on SWAPO bases in Angola.
- Restore Hope (1992) — American name for UNITAF, humanitarian intervention in Somalia
- Reindeer (1978) — South African airborne attack on SWAPO base at Cassinga, Angola.
- Savannah (1975-76) — South African intervention in Angola in support of the FNLA.
- Safraan (1979) — South African attack on SWAPO bases in Zambia.
- Sealords (1968) — Mekong River delta and inland waterways campaign by the US Navy in Vietnam
- Sceptic (1980) — South African attack on SWAPO bases in Angola.
- Silver (1949) — covert British communications tap in Austria
- Success — 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala.
- Suzannah (1954) — Israeli plan to bomb American interests in Egypt
- Urgent Fury (1983) — U.S. invasion of Grenada
- Berlin Airlift of 1948:
- Vittles — U.S. part of the Berlin Airlift
- Planefare — British part of the Berlin Airlift
Post-Cold War
Afghanistan
Africa
Arab/Israeli Conflict
Balkans
- Rosario — Argentine invasion
- Corporate — British liberation
- Black Buck — British long-range bombing raid
- Canbelow — British antiaircraft naval ambush
- Keyhole — British commando raid
- Purple Warrior — British training exercise incorporating lessons from the Falklands War
- Sutton — British amphibious landings
Haiti
Humanitarian Operations
Iraq
Persian Gulf War
Second Invasion of Iraq
Other/Unknown
Law Enforcement
Other
Non-military operations
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