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Operation Smile
Operation Smile is a Virginia Beach-based international nonprofit founded in 1982 by Bill and Kathy Magee that provides free cleft lip and palate surgery and training in 37 countries; distinct from Smile Train and unrelated SMILE missions.
Operation Snow White
Operation Snow White: 1970s Church of Scientology Guardian's Office conspiracy to purge government files on Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard; exposed by 1977 FBI raids; eleven convictions including Mary Sue Hubbard.
Operation Solomon (מבצע שלמה)
Operation Solomon (מבצע שלמה, Mivtza Shlomo) was a covert 1991 Israeli military and civilian operation that airlifted more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa to Israel in about 36 hours.
Operation Southern Spear
Operation Southern Spear is the U.S. military counter-narco-terrorism campaign in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, announced November 13, 2025 by Hegseth, run by SOUTHCOM's Joint Task Force Southern Spear, conducting lethal boat strikes and leading to Maduro's capture.
Operation Spanner
Operation Spanner: 1987 UK Metropolitan Police investigation into gay consensual sadomasochism, leading to the Spanner trials, R v Brown, and Laskey v UK.
Operation Spiderweb (Операція «Павутина»)
Operation Spiderweb (Операція «Павутина»), SBU covert drone strike of 1 June 2025 hitting Russian strategic bombers at Olenya, Belaya, Dyagilevo and Ivanovo airbases using smuggled FPV drones in wooden sheds on trucks.
Operation Spring Awakening
Operation Spring Awakening (Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen), Germany's last major offensive, 6–15 March 1945 in Hungary: 6th SS Panzer Army attacked Tolbukhin's 3rd Ukrainian Front near Lake Balaton to protect the Nagykanizsa oilfields, and failed.
Operation Stack
Operation Stack is a Kent traffic procedure that closes the M20 to park freight lorries when disruption at Dover or the Channel Tunnel stops cross-Channel departures.
Operation Starlite
Operation Starlite (Battle of Van Tuong), 18–24 August 1965: first regimental-sized U.S. offensive of the Vietnam War, in which about 5,500 Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment near Chu Lai, killing almost 700 at a cost of 45 dead.
Operation Starvation (飢餓作戦)
Operation Starvation (飢餓作戦) was a United States aerial mining campaign against Japan from March to August 1945, in which B-29s laid over 12,000 mines that cut imports and ship traffic.
Operation Steel Tiger
Operation Steel Tiger was a covert US air campaign over the Laotian panhandle from 1965 to 1968, attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam War.
Operation Storm
Operation Storm (Oluja), Croatia's 4–7 August 1995 offensive recaptured the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina in 84 hours, ending the war but displacing roughly 200,000 Serbs; ICTY convictions were overturned on appeal in 2012.
Operation Strangle
Operation Strangle was the code name for two failed United Nations air interdiction campaigns of the Korean War, against roads and then railways, in 1951 and 1952.
Operation Taco Gary's
Operation Taco Gary's is a 2026 American sci-fi comedy directed by Michael Kvamme, starring Simon Rex and Dustin Milligan as brothers who find an alien invasion hidden in a taco chain; released by Chroma February 27, 2026.
Operation Tannenbaum
Operation Tannenbaum (Unternehmen Tannenbaum) was Nazi Germany's codename, used from autumn 1940, for planned invasions of Switzerland with Italy, drafted from June 1940 and revised through 1943 but never executed.
Operation Teapot
Operation Teapot was a 1955 United States nuclear test series of 14 nuclear shots and one non-nuclear shot at the Nevada Test Site, engaging about 11,000 Defense Department personnel.
Operation Tegas
Operation Tegas ("Firm") was a joint Indonesian army, navy, and air force operation launched on 12 March 1958 to crush the PRRI rebellion in mainland Riau, Sumatra.
Operation Tekbir '95
Operation Tekbir '95 was an offensive launched by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Bosnian Serb forces around Sarajevo in June 1995, during the Bosnian War.
Operation Tempest
Operation Tempest (Akcja Burza) was the Polish Home Army's 1944 plan of regional uprisings against retreating Germans ahead of the Red Army, aiming to assert Polish sovereignty; it culminated in the failed 63-day Warsaw Uprising.
Operation Ten-Go
Operation Ten-Go (Ten-gō Sakusen) was the Japanese plan for defending Okinawa in 1945, and the 7 April sortie in which the battleship Yamato was sunk by US carrier aircraft.
Operation Thunderbolt
Operation Thunderbolt was a U.S. Eighth Army counteroffensive launched on 25 January 1951 during the Korean War, the first offensive under Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.
Operation Tidal Wave
Operation Tidal Wave: USAAF low-level B-24 raid on nine Ploiesti, Romania oil refineries, 1 August 1943, from Libya; 178 bombers, 54 lost, five Medals of Honor; distinct from 2015 Operation Tidal Wave II against ISIS oil.
Operation Tiger Hound
Operation Tiger Hound was a United States air interdiction campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southeastern Laos, begun in December 1965 as part of Operation Steel Tiger.
Operation Toofan
Operation Toofan ("The Narco Hunt", ഓപ്പറേഷൻ തൂഫാൻ) is a statewide anti-narcotics campaign in Kerala, India, led by the Kerala Police and launched by Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan on June 2, 2026.
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the code name for an Anglo-American amphibious invasion launched November 8, 1942, opening a crucial second front against the Axis in French North Africa during World War II.
Operation Trident (1971)
Operation Trident: Indian Navy missile-boat raid on Karachi harbour, night of 4-5 December 1971, during the Indo-Pakistani War; sank PNS Khaibar, PNS Muhafiz and MV Venus Challenger with Styx missiles, hit Keamari oil tanks, no Indian losses; followed by Operation Python.
Operation Trikora
Operation Trikora was an Indonesian military campaign launched by President Sukarno in December 1961 to seize Netherlands New Guinea, ending in the 1962 New York Agreement.
Operation Turquoise
Operation Turquoise (Opération Turquoise) was a French-led military intervention in Rwanda, authorized by the UN Security Council on 22 June 1994 during the genocide of the Tutsi.
Operation Twist
Operation Twist is a Federal Reserve open-market operation that sells short-term Treasuries and buys long-term ones to lower long-term yields, run in 1961 and again from 2011 to 2012.
Operation Typhoon
Operation Typhoon (Операция «Тайфун») was the German strategic offensive against Moscow launched by Army Group Centre at the end of September and beginning of October 1941, which failed to take the city.