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unusual facts about military operation


Combat mission

Military operation, the coordinated military actions of a state in response to a developing situation


1969 in the Vietnam War

Operation Camden was an Australian Army military operation in support of the 501 Land Clearing Company, United States Army Corps of Engineers who were undertaking land clearing operations in the Hat Dich Area.

Phantom Below

The Navy does not believe his story and it appears his career is over until he is recruited to command a covert mission to tap an underwater cable lying between North Korea and mainland China.

Pinal Airpark

It is also extensively used by the British Army for 'Conversion To Role' training for Apache combat operations in Afghanistan.

Project Vitello

Project Vitello was a military operation that transferred the 9.2-inch Mark X breech-loading gun at Spur Battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.

Zhemgang District

In late 2003 the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck led a military operation which largely swept the guerrillas out of the region.


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Afshar Operation

The Afshar Operation was a military operation by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani's Islamic State of Afghanistan government forces and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Ittehad-i Islami forces against Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami and Abdul Ali Mazari's Hezb-e Wahdat militias in the densely populated Afshar district in west Kabul.

Al-Kabri incident

The al-Kabri incident refers to a military operation carried out by the Israeli army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in retaliation for the ambush of the Yehiam convoy.

Astute

Operation Astute, an Australian military operation in response to the 2006 East Timor crisis

Capture of Owerri

In July 1968 the Nigerian General and commander of the 3rd Marine Division Benjamin Adekunle began making plans for an invasion of Aba, Owerri, and Umuahia in a military operation he nicknamed Operation OAU, Adekunle boldly stated that he would be able to capture all three cities in 2 weeks.

Coastal Road massacre

According to Augustus Richard Norton, professor of international relations at Boston University, the IDF military operation killed approximately 1,100 people, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.

Darvishan

In January 2010, Darvishan was the theatre of Taliban fanned violent anti-American demonstrations, following rumors of a desecration of the Qur'an in a U.S.-led military operation and maltreatment of women in the village of Barcha, about 6 miles south of Darvishan, during a raid to detain insurgents.

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

Following the third mission, the player assumes the role of the same soldier, but assigned to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, taking part in Operation Gothic Serpent, a military operation conducted during the Battle of Mogadishu on October 3, 1993.

Exit strategy

Republican critics of President Bill Clinton derided him for having no exit strategy, although he had inherited an active military operation from his predecessor, President George H. W. Bush.

Iron Hand

Operation Iron Hand, a US military operation conducted during the Vietnam War

Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville

Active in the troupes de la marine from an early age, he served with his father during a 1687 French military operation against the Seneca tribes of present-day western New York led by Governor of New France Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville.

Jinnahpur

Despite the party's strong commitment to the Pakistani state, the government of Nawaz Sharif chose to use it as the basis for the military operation against the MQM, known as Operation Clean-up.

Jovan Radonjić

In 1796, Mahmut Pasha Bušatlija, ruler of the Pashalik of Scutari, took an Ottoman army in a military operation against the rebellious Montenegrin tribes: Bjelopavlici and Piper.

Leola, Arkansas

In 1864, the Camden Expedition (part of a larger military operation, the Red River Campaign), under the command of General Frederick Steele, marched his union troops along the Old Camden Road that passed through Leola after his supplies were depleted and Gen. Kirby's Confederates were on his rear flank as they approached the Jenkins Ferry on the Saline River.

Mivtsa Yonatan

Operation Entebbe, also known as Operation Yonatan, a military operation

Occupation of Hungary by Nazi Germany

Operation Panzerfaust, military operation to occupy Hungary in October 1944

Operation Abilene

Operation Abilene (2003) - a US military operation in Al Anbar province in 2003 during the Iraq War.

Operation Abilene (1966) - a joint US-Australian military operation in 1966 during the Vietnam War.

Operation Dexterity

Operation Dexterity was a military operation, part of Operation Cartwheel in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) for the Allies in the Pacific theater of World War II.

Operation Iron Hammer

Operation Eisenhammer (Iron Hammer), a planned military operation in World War II

Operation Riviresa

Operation Riviresa (Operation Sunrays), was a combined military operation launched by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in Jaffna.

Panther's Claw

Operation Panther's Claw, an ongoing United Kingdom-led military operation of the War in Afghanistan in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan

Raid at Combahee Ferry

The Raid at Combahee Ferry was a military operation during the American Civil War; it was conducted on June 1 and June 2, 1863, by elements of the Union Army along the Combahee River in Beaufort and Colleton counties in southeast South Carolina.

Raúl Reyes

Reyes was killed during a Colombian military operation in Granada, Putumayo Department, on March 1, 2008, against an encampment situated near Santa Rosa de Sucumbíos, on the Ecuadorian side of the border along the Putumayo River.

Tajikistan insurgency

On 18 October, three suspected insurgents were killed by Tajik soldiers on the outskirts of Garm, located near the Afghan border during a military operation.

The Tajik government then launched a joint military operation on the 25 July in the city of Khorog with the aim of capturing Tolib Ayombekov, who was said to be behind the 21 July killing and the 19 September ambush.

Timika Airport

On April 15, 1996 at about 5 a.m., Second Lieutenant Sanurip, 36, a member of Kopassus, who was assigned to take part at a military operation to secure the release of 11 hostages being held by the Free Papua Movement, began shooting indiscriminately with an automatic weapon at people near an army-run aircraft hangar.