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Operation Dingo
Operation Dingo, known in Zimbabwe as the Chimoio massacre, was a November 1977 Rhodesian airborne raid on ZANLA camps at Chimoio and Tembue in Mozambique, inflicting thousands of casualties.
Operation Downfall
Operation Downfall, also known as the Invasion of Japan, was the planned Allied invasion of Japan in World War II, canceled when Japan surrendered in August 1945.
Operation Dragon Rouge
Operation Dragon Rouge, meaning Red Dragon, was a 1964 Belgian-American rescue operation that freed more than 1,600 European hostages held by Simba rebels in Stanleyville, Congo.
Operation Dragoon
Operation Dragoon, originally Anvil, was the Allied invasion of southern France on 15 August 1944 by the U.S. Seventh Army and French Army B, capturing Toulon and Marseille and linking up with Normandy forces near Dijon.
Operation Eagle Pull
Operation Eagle Pull was the United States helicopter evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 12 April 1975, five days before the city fell to the Khmer Rouge.
Operation Earnest Will
Operation Earnest Will, the 1987-1988 U.S. Navy escort of 11 reflagged Kuwaiti tankers in the Persian Gulf Tanker War; largest convoy operation since World War II, spanning 127 missions, the Bridgeton mining, and Operation Praying Mantis.
Operation Eastern Sentry
Operation Eastern Sentry is NATO's enhanced vigilance and air-defense operation, launched 12 September 2025 after Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace, reinforcing the eastern flank from the Baltic to the Black Sea under SACEUR command.
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the American-led military campaign in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014, which began in response to 9/11 and targeted al-Qaeda.
Operation Euphrates Shield
Operation Euphrates Shield (Fırat Kalkanı Harekâtı), Turkey's first direct military intervention in Syria, ran 24 August 2016 to 29 March 2017, clearing ISIS from a 98-km border segment with Free Syrian Army allies and blocking Kurdish PYD/YPG expansion.
Operation Fenkil
The Battle of Massawa was a February 1990 battle of the Eritrean War of Independence in which the EPLF captured the Red Sea port of Massawa from Ethiopia.
Operation Flash
Operation Flash (Croatian: Bljesak) was a military-police operation by the Croatian Army and special police, launched on 1 May 1995 to recapture Serb-held Western Slavonia in under 32 hours.
Operation Flavius
Operation Flavius: British SAS anti-terrorist operation in Gibraltar, 6 March 1988, in which Daniel McCann, Mairead Farrell, and Seán Savage of the Provisional IRA were shot dead as suspected car bombers; led to the McCann v. UK Article 2 judgment.
Operation Fortitude
Operation Fortitude was the 1944 Allied D-Day deception plan under BODYGUARD, with Fortitude North threatening Norway and Fortitude South a phantom First US Army Group under Patton threatening the Pas-de-Calais, keeping 22 German divisions there into July 1944.
Operation Freedom Deal
Operation Freedom Deal was the code name for US tactical air operations in Cambodia from June 30, 1970 until Congress ordered bombing to cease on August 15, 1973.
Operation Freedom's Sentinel
Operation Freedom's Sentinel (OFS), the U.S. Afghanistan mission January 1, 2015 to October 1, 2021, succeeded Operation Enduring Freedom, combining counterterrorism against al Qaeda remnants with support to NATO Resolute Support; $134.3 billion obligated; replaced by Operation Enduring Sentinel.
Operation Frequent Wind
Operation Frequent Wind, originally codenamed Talon Vise, was the United States helicopter evacuation of Saigon on April 29 and 30, 1975, removing over 7,000 people.
Operation Gibraltar
Operation Gibraltar was Pakistan's August 1965 covert infiltration of roughly 8,000 soldiers and Razakars into Jammu and Kashmir to spark an uprising; it failed, triggering Operation Grand Slam and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War.
Operation Gordian Knot
Operation Gordian Knot (Operação Nó Górdio) was a 1970 Portuguese military offensive during the Mozambican War of Independence, the largest Portuguese campaign of the colonial wars.
Operation Gothic Serpent
Operation Gothic Serpent, also known as the Black Hawk Down operation, was the 1993 U.S. Task Force Ranger campaign in Mogadishu, Somalia, to capture warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid; its October 3 raid became the Battle of Mogadishu.
Operation Green Sea
Operation Green Sea (Portuguese: Operação Mar Verde) was an amphibious attack on Conakry, Guinea, by some 400 Portuguese soldiers on 22 November 1970, during the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence.
Operation Greenhouse
Operation Greenhouse: fourth U.S. postwar atmospheric nuclear test series, four tower shots (Dog, Easy, George, Item) at Enewetak Atoll, April-May 1951, yields 45.5-225 kt; George and Item advanced thermonuclear weapon development.
Operation Greif
Operation Greif (Unternehmen Greif) was Otto Skorzeny's German commando operation in the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, using English-speaking troops in US uniforms to seize Meuse bridges and sow confusion; it failed its main objective but spread panic, and Skorzeny was acquitted at Dachau in 1947.
Operation Halyard
Operation Halyard, also known as the Halyard Mission (Serbian: Операција Ваздушни мост), was an OSS airlift that rescued downed Allied airmen from occupied Serbia in 1944.
Operation Hammer (1987)
Operation Hammer was a Los Angeles Police Department anti-gang sweep program begun in 1987 under Chief Daryl Gates, producing over 50,000 mass arrests of mostly Black and Latino residents in South Los Angeles, with few charges filed and major civil-liberties criticism.
Operation Hastings
Operation Hastings was a July 1966 joint US Marine and South Vietnamese operation in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, against the North Vietnamese 324B Division.
Operation Herrick
Operation Herrick was the UK codename for military operations in Afghanistan from 2003 to the end of 2014 under ISAF, spanning twenty six-month rotations, peaking at 9,500 personnel, centered on Helmand, with 457 UK deaths and £27.7 billion cost.
Operation Hope Not
Operation Hope Not was the British government code name for the state funeral plan of Sir Winston Churchill, begun by Queen Elizabeth II's direction in 1953 after Churchill's stroke, chaired by the Duke of Norfolk, and executed at his 30 January 1965 funeral.
Operation Ichi-Go (一号作戦)
Operation Ichi-Go (一号作戦), the Battle of Henan-Hunan-Guangxi, was Japan's biggest campaign of the war: about 500,000 troops fought across China from April 1944, winning ground but changing little.
Operation Igloo White
Operation Igloo White was a U.S. Air Force electronic surveillance system in Laos from late 1967. It used air-dropped sensors and orbiting aircraft to detect North Vietnamese movements.
Operation Inherent Resolve
Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), CJTF-OIR, is the U.S.-led military operation against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, launched August 8, 2014 and named October 15, 2014. It defeated the ISIS caliphate territorially by 2019, shifted to advise-and-enable, and ended its Iraq phase September 30, 2026.