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Operation Ivory Coast
Operation Ivory Coast was a 1970 US special operations raid to rescue American POWs from the Son Tay prison camp near Hanoi, North Vietnam; the camp was empty.
Operation Jayawijaya
Operation Jayawijaya (Operasi Jayawijaya) was Indonesia's planned 1962 large-scale open attack to take West Irian from the Netherlands, with about 70,000 troops landing at Biak. It was postponed in August 1962 and never carried out.
Operation Jumelles
Operation Jumelles, French for "Binoculars," was a large French military offensive of the Algerian War, launched in Grande Kabylie on 22 July 1959 and fought until early 1960.
Operation Junction City
Operation Junction City was a large US and South Vietnamese search and destroy operation in War Zone C, Vietnam, in 1967, targeting the communist COSVN headquarters.
Operation Ke
Operation Ke (ケ号作戦) was the Japanese operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal, completed by navy destroyers in three runs on 1, 4, and 7 February 1943, unseen by the Allies.
Operation Kikusui
Operation Kikusui (菊水作戦, "floating chrysanthemums") was the Japanese Navy's designation for ten massed kamikaze attacks launched against the Allied fleet off Okinawa between April and June 1945.
Operation Killer
Operation Killer was a UN counteroffensive in the Korean War, launched by the US Eighth Army under General Matthew Ridgway against Chinese and North Korean forces from February 20 to March 6, 1951.
Operation Kraai
Operation Kraai, known in Dutch as Operatie Kraai and in Indonesia as Agresi Militer Belanda II, was the second major Dutch offensive of the Indonesian War of Independence, launched in December 1948.
Operation Krivaja '95
Operation Krivaja '95 (Krivaja 95) was the July 1995 Drina Corps offensive of the Bosnian Serb army against the Srebrenica safe area, capturing the town on 11 July and preceding the Srebrenica genocide.
Operation Lam Son 719
Operation Lam Son 719 was a South Vietnamese incursion into southeastern Laos in early 1971, aiming to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail at Tchepone with US air support.
Operation Linda Nchi
Operation Linda Nchi, Swahili for "Protect the Nation," was the code name for Kenya's 2011 military intervention in southern Somalia against the Al-Shabaab Islamist group.
Operation Linebacker
Operation Linebacker was a US aerial bombing and interdiction campaign against North Vietnam from April to October 1972, launched in response to North Vietnam's conventional Easter Offensive against South Vietnam.
Operation Lorraine
Operation Lorraine (French: Opération Lorraine) was a French offensive of the First Indochina War, launched October 29, 1952, with over 30,000 men against Viet Minh supply bases.
Operation Lukavac '93
Operation Lukavac '93 was a 1993 VRS offensive against the ARBiH in the mountains south of Sarajevo. It aimed to connect Herzegovina and close the siege ring.
Operation Market Garden
Operation Market Garden (17-26 September 1944) was the largest airborne operation in history, an Allied attempt to seize Dutch bridges at Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and Arnhem; it failed when British 1st Airborne was overwhelmed at Arnhem before XXX Corps arrived.
Operation Meghdoot
Operation Meghdoot: Indian Army and Air Force operation launched 13 April 1984 to seize the Siachen glacier and Saltoro Ridge heights ahead of Pakistan's Operation Ababeel; about 300 troops deployed, ongoing deployment above 21,000 feet in the world's highest battlefield.
Operation Metro Surge
Operation Metro Surge, also called Metro Surge, was a federal immigration enforcement operation launched by DHS in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area on December 1, 2025.
Operation Michael
Operation Michael, the German spring offensive of 21 March–5 April 1918, also called Kaiserschlacht or Second Battle of the Somme: Ludendorff's assault on the British Third and Fifth Armies that gained 40 miles but failed to take Amiens.
Operation Midway Blitz
Operation Midway Blitz was a large-scale federal immigration enforcement campaign launched in Chicago on September 8, 2025, bringing hundreds of agents, about 4,000 arrests, protests, and federal court orders over nine weeks.
Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat: 1943 British deception using corpse Glyndwr Michael as fake Major William Martin to convince Germany the Allies would invade Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily; planners Cholmondeley and Montagu.
Operation Mo
Operation Mo, often written Operation MO, was a Japanese plan of May 1942 to seize Port Moresby and Tulagi, foiled at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Operation Moduler
Operation Moduler, anglicised Operation Modular, was a 1987 South African Defence Force operation that helped UNITA stop a FAPLA offensive, the first phase of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.
Operation MoLoChKa
Operation MoLoChKa (Операція «МоЛоЧКа», acronym for 'Moscow will fall through Crimea') is Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces maritime drone campaign against Russia's shadow fleet, launched July 6, 2026 in the Sea of Azov and extended to the Black Sea on July 15.
Operation Mongoose
Operation Mongoose, a covert U.S. program authorized by President Kennedy on November 3, 1961, aimed to undermine and overthrow Fidel Castro's government via sabotage, intelligence, and resistance support; run by the Special Group (Augmented) and CIA Task Force W, it was suspended in October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Operation Morthor
Operation Morthor was a 1961 United Nations military operation against the secessionist State of Katanga, intended to end the secession and round up foreign mercenaries.
Operation Moses
Operation Moses (Hebrew: מבצע משה) was a covert Israeli-led airlift, run with the United States and Sudan, that brought thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel between 1984 and 1985.
Operation Murambatsvina
Operation Murambatsvina, officially Operation Restore Order, was a campaign of forced evictions and demolitions launched by Zimbabwe's government on 19 May 2005, beginning in Harare and spreading nationwide.
Operation Northwind (1944)
Operation Northwind (Unternehmen Nordwind), the last large-scale German offensive in the West, struck the US Seventh Army in Alsace from 31 December 1944 to 25 January 1945, aiming to destroy enemy forces and retake Strasbourg; it failed, leaving the Wehrmacht exhausted.
Operation Octopus
Operation Octopus was Charles Taylor's NPFL assault on Monrovia and the ECOMOG peacekeepers, launched October 15, 1992 during the First Liberian Civil War; it failed and turned ECOMOG to peace enforcement.
Operation Olive Branch
Operation Olive Branch (Zeytin Dalı Harekâtı), Turkey's 20 January to 18 March 2018 cross-border offensive in Afrin, Syria, with the Syrian National Army against the YPG; captured Afrin city, displaced roughly half its population.