List of military missions, operations, and projects

Operations:

This list is sorted by the operation's code name. It should be noted that code names cannot be the names of people still alive. It cannot refer to success-you can't have 'Operation Wonderful'-for respect of the victims of the battle on either side. Nor can it refer to failure (like Operation Tragic) because it depresses those about to fight.

• Adler ("Eagle") -- German air offensive against Britain, as a prelude to Seelöwe, 1940.
• Agatha -- 1946 British attack on Hagana[?] and Irgun in Palestine
• Anaconda -- US effort to capture al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan.
• 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 [1] -- German seizure and occupation of Vichy France, 1940.
• Attila [2] -- Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus, 1974.
• 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 ("Blue") -- German offensive at Voronezh, Russia, June 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
• Epsom -- British assault west of Caen, Normandy, 1944.
• (Fall) Blau [1] ("Case Blue") -- Planned German air attack on England, 1939.
• Fall Blau [2] ("Case Blue") -- German offensive in the southern USSR, 1942.
• 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.
• Desert Shield -- buildup prior to Gulf War, 1990.
• Desert Storm -- Gulf War, 1991.
• Downfall -- planned Allied invasion of Japan.
  • Olympic -- First of two prongs of the invasion of Japan.
  • Coronet-- Second of two prongs of the 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.
• El Dorado Canyon -- US strikes against Libya, 1986.
• Enduring Freedom, US and UK invasion of Afghanistan, 2001-2002.
• Entebbe - Israeli Entebbe operation 1976
• Evening Light -- US attempt to rescue embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran, 1980.
• Felix -- Planned German invasion of Gibraltar via Spain, 1940-1941.
• Fortitude -- Allied deception of Germany, 1944.
• Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") -- German offensive against western Europe, 1940.
• Fall Weiss ("Case White") -- German invasion of Poland, 1939.
• Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") -- Planned German capture of Leningrad, 1942.
• Fischereiher ("Heron") -- German offensive to capture Stalingrad, 1942.
• Fruhingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") -- Last German counterattack against Russian forces in Hungary, March 1945.
• Golden Pheasant -- US deployment in Honduras, 1988.
• 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.
• 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.
• Infinite Justice, original name for Enduring Freedom.
• Iraqi Freedom -- coalition name for 2003 Iraq War.
• Jonathan -- rescue of hostages at Entebbe[?], Uganda in 1976.
• Just Cause -- US invasion of Panama, 1989.
• 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.
• 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.

• Northern Watch -- northern No-Fly Zone over Iraq, 1990s.
• Northwoods - plan to incite war between United States and Cuba in 1960s
• Operation Paperclip - a part-military, part-scientific operation to gain information out of Nazi scientists after the Second World War.
• Peace for Galilee - Israeli invastion of Lebanon
• Peter Pan - transfer of Cubans to United States in 1960-1962
• 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.
• Power Pack -- US deployment in Santo Domingo, 1965.
• Operation Provide Comfort - provide security and humanitarian aid to Kurds in northern Iraq in 1991
• Renntier ("Reindeer") -- German occupation of Finnish Petsamo[?] in 1941.
• Rheinübung ("Exercise Rhine") -- German attacks on Allied shipping conducted by the ships Bismark 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.
• Sharp Edge -- evacuation of Americans from Liberia, 1990-1991.
• Sledgehammer -- Planned Allied landings in France, 1942.
• Sonnenwende ("Winter Solstice") -- German offensive to relieve Pomerania from Russian forces and halt advance on Berlin, February 1945.
• Southern Watch -- southern No-Fly Zone over Iraq, 1990s.
• Stösser -- German paratrooper drop intended to capture highway crossroads in the Ardennes (Luxembourg and France), December 1944.
• Supercharge -- second attack by British at El Alamein, 1942.
• Suzannah - Israel plan to bomb American interests in Egypt in 1954
• 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.
• Urgent Fury -- US invasion of Grenada, 1983.
• Vittles -- Berlin Airlift in 1948
• 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.

Projects:

• Manhattan Project
• RAND
• Vanguard

non-military operations

• Operation Clambake -- anti-Scientology