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List of operations and projects (military and non-military)

This is a list of missions, operations, and projects. Missions in support of other missions are not listed independently.

Table of contents

1 Operations 1.1 World War II 1.2 Cold War Era 1.3 Post-Cold War 1.4 Other/Unknown 2 Law Enforcement 3 Other 4 Non-military operations 5 External links

Operations

World War II

• Agreement (1942) - British landing in North Africa
• Reinhard (1943) German reprisals for Anthropoid.
• Alphabet - 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) British 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 - Allied landings near Salerno, Italy
  • Boardman - deception operation for Avalanche
• Barbarossa (1941) - German invasion of the Soviet Union
  • Platinfuchs ("Platinum Fox") (1941) - German attack towards Murmansk from Finnish Petsamo
  • Polarfuchs ("Polar Fox") (1941) - German attack towards Kandalaksha from Finnish Lapland
• 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
• Candytuft (1943) - British raid on the Italian east coast
• Canuck (1945) - SAS operation near Turin
• 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
• Crusader (1941) - British attempt to relieve Tobruk
• Deadlight (1945) - postwar scuttling of U-boats
• Defoe (1944) - SAS patrols in Normandy
• Donnerschlag ("Thunderclap") (1942) - planned breakout of the German 6th Army from Stalingrad
• Downfall (1945) - planned invasion of Japan
  • Olympic - first of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
  • Coronet - second of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
• Dragoon (1944) - Allied landing in southern France
  • Dove - gliderborne component of Dragoon
  • Span - deception operation in support of Dragoon
• 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 Gruen ("Case Green") - 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
• Felix (1940-41) - planned German invasion of Gibraltar
• Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") (1942) - planned German capture of Leningrad
• Fischereiher ("Heron") (1942) - German offensive to capture Stalingrad
• Fortitude (1944) - Allied deception in Europe
• Foxley - a plan to kill Adolf Hitler that was never carried out
• Frankton (1942) - commando raid on shipping port in France
• Frühlingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") (1945) - German counterattack against Russian forces in Hungary
• Gaff (1944) - attempt to kill Erwin Rommel
• Gauntlet (1941) - raid on Spitzbergen
• Goodwood (1944) - British breakout attempt from Normandy
• Greif ("Grab") (1944) - German troops disguised as Allied soldiers during Battle of the Bulge
• Grenade (1945) - American/Canadian crossing of the Rhine
• Grün [1] ("Green") - 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
• Habakkuk - 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
• Icarus (1940) - planned German invasion of Iceland
• Lightfoot (1942) - first attack by the British at El Alamein
• Marita (1941) - German invasion of Greece
• Lost (1944) - British raid on Brittany
• Margarethe (1944) - German operation to keep Hungary from defecting
• Loyton (1944) - large SAS patrol in French mountains
• Manhattan Project - American program to build an atomic bomb
• Market Garden (1944) - Allied airborne attempt to cross the lower Rhine
• 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
  • Bodyguard - overall deception plan
  • Detroit - American airdrop in Normandy
  • Chicago - American airdrop in Normandy
  • Dingson - Free French commando raid
  • Tonga - British airdrop in Normandy
  • Neptune - landing phase of Overlord
  • Maple - Allied naval minesweeping operations
  • Gambit - British midget submarine operations
• Pegasus (1944) - Allied rescue of troops after failure of Market Garden
• Paperclip - part-military, part-scientific operation to gain information out of Nazi scientists 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
  • Archway - commando operation to support Plunder
• Renntier ("Reindeer") (1941) - German occupation of 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
• Seelöwe ("Sea Lion") (1940) - planned German invasion of Great Britain
  • Adler ("Eagle") - German air offensive
  • Grün [2] ("Green") (1940) - cecoy 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
• Sledgehammer (1942) - planned Allied landings in France
• Sonneblume - 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
• Supercharge (1942) -second attack by British at El Alamein
• 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
• Theseus (1942) - German offensive to drive Allies out of Cyrenaica and Egypt
• Tombola (1945) - SAS raid in Italy
• Torch (1942) - Allied landings in North Africa
• Totalize (1944) - Allied effort to trap German armor in Normandy
• Watchtower (1942) - US invasion of Guadalcanal
• Weiss (1939) - German invasion of Poland.
• Weserübung ("Weser Exercise") (1940) - German invasion of Denmark and Norway
• Wintergewitter ("Winter Storm") (1942) - German attempt to relief encircled 6th Army at Stalingrad
• Zitadelle ("Citadel") (1943) German counteroffensive at Kursk
• 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
• Argus (1959) - test of nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere
• Attila (1974) - Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus
• Balak (1948) - smuggling of arms to Israel
• Claret (1964) - British patrols into Indonesia
• El Dorado Canyon (1986) - US strikes against Libya
• Entebbe (1976) - Israeli rescue operation at Entebbe, Uganda. Later renamed Jonathan
• Evening Light (1980) - US attempt to rescue embassy hostages in Tehran
• Gold (1954) - covert American tunnel under the Berlin Wall
• Golden Pheasant (1988) - US deployment in Honduras
• Horev (1948) - Israeli attack in northern Israel
• Jonathan (1976) - rescue of hostages at Entebbe, Uganda
• Jennifer (1974) - CIA lifting of a sunken Soviet submarine
• Just Cause (1989) - US invasion of Panama
• Mongoose (1962) - plan for information gathering, sabotage, civil insurrection and the overthrown of the Cuban government
• Nimrod (1980) - rescue of hostages in the Iranian embassy, London
• Northwoods (1960s) - plan to incite war between the United States and Cuba
• ''Orion (1960) - DARPA project to design a Nuclear pulse propulsion system
• Peter Pan (1960s) - transfer of Cubans to the US
• Power Pack (1965) - US deployment in the Dominican Republic
• Provide Comfort (1991) - relief effort in northern Iraq
• Restore Hope (1992) - American name for UNITAF, humanitarian intervention in Somalia
• Silver - covert British tunnel in Austria
• Suzannah (1954) - Israeli plan to bomb American interests in Egypt
• Urgent Fury (1983) - US invasion of Grenada
• Vittles (1948) - Berlin Airlift
  • Operation Planefare - British part of the Berlin Airlift

Post-Cold War

• Addition (2000) - Canada's contribution to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
• Anaconda - US sweep in Afghanistan
• Apollo - the Canadian Navy's operations in support of United States forces in Afghanistan
• Assistance (1997) - Canadaian assistance to Manitoba after major flooding
• Athena (2003) Canadian Forces contribution to ISAF in Kabul.
• Bljesak ("Flash") (1995) - Croatian offensive against western Slavonian parts of Krajina
• Boleas (1998) - South African military intervention in Lesotho
• Bramble Bush (1992) - Israeli plan to kill Saddam Hussein
• Caravan - Canadian contribution to the French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Central (1998) - Canada's assistance to Central America after the devastation of Hurricane Mitch
• Chaperon - Canada's contribution to the United Nations of one military observer (UNMO)
• Constable (1997) - Canada's contribution to the United Nations Mission in Haiti
• Desert Shield (1990) - American buildup prior to Gulf War
  • Granby - British codename for operations during Gulf War
• Desert Storm (1991) - Gulf War
  • Desert Saber - Gulf War ground campaign
• Determination (early 1998) - Canadian deployment in the Persian Gulf to force Iraq to comply with United Nations inspection agreements
• Enduring Freedom (2001-2002) - US and UK invasion of Afghanistan
  • Anaconda - US effort to capture al Qaeda members and Talibans in Afghanistan
  • Apollo - the Canadian Navy's operation in support of the United States forces in Afghanistan
  • Athena (2003) Canadian Forces contribution to ISAF in Kabul.
  • Avalanche (December 2003) - US-led offensive of Afghanistan
  • Haven Denial (July 2003) - US and Italian operation against Taliban remnants and Al Qaeda fighters in southeast Afghanistan
  • Headstrong (2003) - British special forces secretly training Afghan commandos to seek out and destroy drug labs
  • Mountain Resolve (launched on November 7, 2003) - US-led operation in Nurestan and Konar provinces, Afghanistan
  • Mountain Viper (late August, 2003) - US-Afghan attack on suspected Taliban forces in Zabul province, Afghanistan
  • Slipper - the Royal Australian Navy's contribution to the invasion of Afghanistan
  • Warrior Sweep (July 23, 2003) - first major military operation of the Afghan National Army
• Essential Harvest (2001) - month-long NATO mission of disarming ethnic Albanians in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Falklands War:
  • 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
• ''Flavius (1988) - SAS action against the IRA in Gibraltar
• Forage - Canadian contribution to NATO's Essential Harvest
• Granby (1991) - British codename for operations during the Gulf War
• Harmony - Canada's contribution to the United Nation Protection Force (UNPROFOR), which was created in February 1992 to ensure the protection and demilitarization of three UN Protected Areas in Croatia
• Infinite Justice - original name for Enduring Freedom
• Iraqi Freedom (2003) - US invasion of Iraq
  • ''Bulldog Mammoth - American search of an apartment complex
  • Iron Hammer - US forces in Iraq "ferreting out" the opposition (not the same as Eisenhammer)
  • Ivy Blizzard - counter insurgency sweep by US forces
  • Ivy Cyclone II - American operation near Tikrit
  • Operation Red Dawn (2003) - American capture of Saddam Hussein
  • Rifles Blitz - border security operations in Iraq
  • Telic - codename for British operations
  • Valiant Resolve (2004) Operations around Fallujah
• Kinetic - Canada's contribution to NATO's mission KFOR to secure Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to provide humanitarian needs to displaced persons
• Litani (1978) Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
• Megaphone - Canada's return of equipment used in Kosovo
• Oluja ("Storm") (1995) - Croatian offensive against Krajina
• Northern Watch (1990s) - northern No-Fly Zone over Iraq
• Peace for Galilee - Israeli invasion of Lebanon
• Peregrine - British Columbia forest fire fighting assitance by soldiers
• Persistence (1998) - Canadian operation at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia to recover bodies after crash of SwissAir Flight 111
• Potkova ("Horseshoe") (1999) - Yugoslav army offensive against the KLA
• Provide Comfort (1991) - security and humanitarian aid to Kurds in northern Iraq
• Quadrant - Canada's mission in Kosovo
• Record (1991) - Canadian mission to secure Iraqi-Kuwaiti border
• Recuperation (1998) - Canadian assistance after major snowstorms in eastern Canada
• Sharp Edge (1990-91) - evacuation of Americans from Liberia
• Shining Express (2003) - evacuation of Americans from Liberia
• Southern Watch (1990s) - southern No-Fly Zone over Iraq
• Slipper - the Royal Australian Navy's contribution to the invasion of Afghanistan
• Support (September 11-14, 2001) - Canadian Forces operations after terrorist September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
• Telic (2003) - British codename for operations against Iraq
• Torrent (1999) - Canadian assistance after earthquake in Turkey
• Toucan - Canada's contribution to the United Nations' Internatonal Force in East Timor (INTERFET) and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)
• Exercise Unified Spirite 2000 - large NATO exercise held every two years to train the armed forces of member nations in joint and combined operations.
• Urgent Fury - American Invasion of Grenada
• Veritas (2001) - British codename for operations in Afghanistan

Other/Unknown

• Artisan - Canadian Forces contribution to the Rinas Airfield Rehabilitation Project in Tirana, Albania
• Echo - Canada sending 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 the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
• \Fusion - Canada's combined contribution to Allied Harmony and Concordia
• Prudence - Canada's participation in the Mission des Nations Unies dans la République Centrafricaine (MINURCA)

Law Enforcement

• Avalanche (1999) - American anti-pedophilia effort
• Falcon (2004) - anti-pedophilia raid against companies handling credit card payments
• Ore (2003) - American led anti-pedophilia effort
• Pin (2003) - British-led anti-pedophilia effort

Other

• List of amphibious assault operations
• List of Nuclear Tests
• RAND
• Vanguard
• Daedalus - British Interplanetary Society study to create a plausible design for an interstellar probe

Non-military operations

• Bojinka - terrorist plot by al-Qaida members Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, foiled in 1995
• Clambake - anti-Scientology

External links

• Canadian Department of National Defence - Past Operations

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