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Operation Production
Operation Production (Operação Produção) was a program adopted in 1983 by Mozambique's Frelimo government to relocate unemployed people, labeled "unproductive", from major cities to rural areas to grow food.
Operation Project Freedom
Operation Project Freedom: US CENTCOM maritime-escort mission (announced May 3, launched May 4, 2026) to guide stranded merchant ships out of the Iran-blockaded Strait of Hormuz; paused by Trump after about 48 hours; distinct from Operation Epic Fury.
Operation Prosperity Guardian
Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG), US-led multinational naval coalition announced 18 December 2023 under Combined Maritime Forces Task Force 153 to protect Red Sea shipping from Houthi attacks; over 20 nations, defensive mandate, objectives only partially achieved.
Operation Protea
Operation Protea was a large-scale South African military operation into southern Angola in August 1981, occupying much of Cunene province during the South African Border War.
Operation Pyrsos (Επιχείρηση Πυρσός)
Operation Pyrsos (Επιχείρηση Πυρσός, Torch), final August 1949 Greek Civil War offensive; National Army under Papagos took Grammos and Vitsi from the DSE in three phases, ending the insurgency.
Operation Python
Operation Python: name for several military operations, chiefly the Indian Navy's second 1971 missile attack on Karachi (INS Vinash, Styx missiles, Keamari oil farm), plus a 1943–44 Z Special Unit covert mission in North Borneo and Canada's MINURSO deployment.
Operation Raavan
Operation Raavan is a 2024 Telugu crime thriller directed by Venkata Satya. It stars Rakshit Atluri and Sangeerthana Vipin as journalists investigating a serial killer in Hyderabad.
Operation Raise the Colours
Operation Raise the Colours: 2025 UK campaign tying St George's Crosses and Union Jacks to lampposts, bridges and roundabouts, begun in Birmingham and east London, spread via social media, linked to far-right organisers and council removal disputes.
Operation Ramadan
Operation Ramadan (Ramadan al-Mubarak), launched 13-14 July 1982, was Iran's first major offensive into Iraqi territory of the Iran-Iraq War, a series of five failed assaults to capture Basra.
Operation Red Dog
Operation Red Dog, also called the Bayou of Pigs, was a failed 1981 plot by American and Canadian white supremacists led by Mike Perdue and Wolfgang Droege to overthrow Dominica's Prime Minister Eugenia Charles and restore Patrick John; foiled by ATF in New Orleans.
Operation Red Sea (红海行动)
Operation Red Sea (红海行动) is Dante Lam's 2018 Chinese military action film about the navy's Jiaolong commandos in a Yemen-evacuation-inspired rescue, which grossed 36.52亿元 in China and became the country's then second-highest-grossing film.
Operation Red Wings
Operation Red Wings, 28 June 2005, Kunar Province, Afghanistan: failed SEAL reconnaissance mission against Taliban leader Ahmad Shah; three SEALs killed, MH-47 Chinook with 16 shot down, 19 dead total; follow-on Operation Whalers.
Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard, Einsatz Reinhard) was the Nazi code name for the 1942–1943 plan to murder the ~2 million Jews of the General Government in occupied Poland via the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka killing centers, killing ~1.7 million Jews.
Operation Restore Hope
Operation Restore Hope was the United States-led humanitarian intervention in Somalia from December 1992 to May 1993, deploying about 37,000 troops to secure famine relief.
Operation Ripper
Operation Ripper, also called the Fourth Battle of Seoul, was a UN offensive in the Korean War launched by Ridgway's Eighth Army on 7 March 1951, retaking Seoul.
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a graduated United States air campaign against North Vietnam, conducted from March 1965 until November 1968 with over 300,000 combat sorties flown.
Operation Rösselsprung
Operation Rösselsprung (Konjićev skok) was a failed German airborne raid in Bosnia in May 1944, aiming to kill or capture the Yugoslav Partisan leader Tito at Drvar.
Operation Safed Sagar (TV series)
Operation Safed Sagar is a 2026 Netflix Hindi-language military drama series, six episodes, directed by Oni Sen, created by Abhijeet Singh Parmar and Kushal Srivastava, starring Siddharth and Jimmy Shergill as Golden Arrows Squadron pilots in the 1999 Kargil War.
Operation Sandstone
Operation Sandstone was a 1948 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission nuclear test series of three tower shots (X-RAY, YOKE, ZEBRA) at Enewetak Atoll, proof-testing second-generation composite and levitated core designs that enabled the MK 4 weapon.
Operation Sankalp (संकल्प)
Operation Sankalp (संकल्प) is the Indian Navy's maritime security operation, launched 19 June 2019 after Gulf of Oman tanker attacks to escort Indian-flagged vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, expanded from December 2023 to anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, and off Somalia, distinct from the US-led Operation Prosperity Guardian.
Operation Savannah
Operation Savannah was the code name for the South African Defence Force's secret 1975 invasion of Angola, withdrawn in 1976 after Cuban intervention secured the MPLA.
Operation Sceptic
Operation Sceptic was a South African Defence Force cross-border raid into southern Angola, launched in June 1980 to destroy SWAPO's command and logistic bases in the Namibian war of independence.
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seelöwe) was Germany's planned 1940 invasion of England under Directive No. 16: a Folkestone–Brighton landing by 13 divisions, dependent on air supremacy, postponed indefinitely on 17 September 1940.
Operation Sea-Spray
Operation Sea-Spray was a secret 1950 U.S. Navy test in which a ship sprayed bacteria into the air off San Francisco, exposing about 800,000 residents without their consent.
Operation Searchlight
Operation Searchlight: Pakistan Army military crackdown launched the night of 25 March 1971 in East Pakistan (Dhaka), planned by Rao Farman Ali and Khadim Hussain Raja, opening the Bangladesh Liberation War; distinct from later Operation Jackpot.
Operation Seawolf
Operation Seawolf is a 2022 American war film written and directed by Steven Luke, starring Dolph Lundgren as U-boat captain Hans Kessler and Frank Grillo. Fictional WWII plot about a final German U-boat attack on the U.S.; released October 7, 2022, poorly reviewed (IMDb 3.5/10, RT 33%).
Operation Serval
Operation Serval (Opération Serval) was the French military intervention in Mali launched 11 January 2013 to halt jihadist advances toward Bamako, retaking Gao, Timbuktu, and Kidal before becoming Operation Barkhane in 2014.
Operation Shield '94 (Операција Штит)
Operation Shield '94 (Операција Штит) was a late 1994 counteroffensive by the Army of Republika Srpska, launched to retake territory the Bosnian army's 5th Corps had seized around Bihać.
Operation Shujaa
Operation Shujaa is a joint operation of the Congolese and Ugandan armed forces against the ADF, an Islamic State-affiliated group, launched in eastern Congo in 2021.
Operation Silver Fox
Operation Silver Fox (Silberfuchs, Hopeakettu), 29 June to 17 November 1941, was a joint German-Finnish offensive in the Continuation War aiming to capture or isolate Murmansk and cut the Murmansk Railroad; it failed, leaving the port open for Allied Arctic convoys.