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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.
- 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.
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