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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.

Operations

World War II

• 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) 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 (1943) — Allied landings near Salerno, Italy
  • Boardman (1943) — 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
• 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
• 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 (planned for 1945, not executed) — first of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
  • Coronet (planned for 1945, not executed) — 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 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
• Fischereiher ("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
• 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") (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
• Habakkuk (year?) — 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
• Ikarus (1940) — planned German invasion of Iceland
• 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
• 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
  • Lüttich — German counter-offensive at Mortain
• 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
  • Archway — SAS operation to support Plunder
  • Varsity — airborne crossing in conjunction with Plunder
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Blowdown (1963) — Australia/US/UK simulated nuclear explosion in a rain forest
• Claret (1964) — British patrols into Indonesia
• 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
• 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
• Just Cause (1989) — U.S. invasion of Panama
• Litani (1978) — Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
• 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 U.S.
• Power Pack (1965) — U.S. 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 (year?) — covert British tunnel in Austria
• Suzannah (1954) — Israeli plan to bomb American interests in Egypt
• Urgent Fury (1983) — U.S. 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 (2002) — U.S. sweep in Afghanistan
• Apollo (2002) — the Canadian Navy's operations in support of United States forces in Afghanistan
• Assistance (1997) — Canadian 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 (year?) — 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
• Deliverance (1993) — Canadian mission to Somalia
• 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 (2001-2004) — U.S. and UK invasion of Afghanistan
  • Anaconda — U.S. 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) — U.S.-led offensive of Afghanistan
  • Haven Denial (July 2003) — U.S. 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) — U.S.-led operation in Nurestan and Konar provinces, Afghanistan
  • Mountain Viper (late August, 2003) — U.S.-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 (2003-04) — U.S. invasion/occupation of Iraq
  • Bulldog Mammoth — American search of an apartment complex
  • Iron Hammer — U.S. 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
  • Phantom Linebacker — Security Operations along the Syrian border.
  • 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
• 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
• Rainbow — Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip in 2004.
• 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 (Sept. 11-14, 2001) — Canadian Forces operations after terrorist Sept. 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)
• Unified Spirite — large NATO exercise held every two years to train the armed forces of member nations in joint and combined operations.
• 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 fictional military operations
• List of Nuclear Tests
• Project Daedalus — British Interplanetary Society study to create a plausible design for an interstellar probe
• Project Jennifer (1974) — CIA lifting of a sunken Soviet submarine
• Project RAND
• Project Vanguard

Non-military operations

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