List of military operations

List of some military operations and companies:

First World War

• 1914
  • Schlieffen Plan : Basis of German operations at the start of the war
• 1915
  • Operation of the Dardanelles : Attempted invasion by the Entente powers on the Gallipoli peninsula
• 1916
  • Operation Court : Basis of the German attack near Verdun
• 1917
  • Company Alberich : German troops withdraw to the Siegfried Line in 1917
  • Operation Albion : German amphibious landing operation to occupy Baltic islands
• 1918
  • Operation Punch : Advance of the Central Powers on the Eastern Front, 1918
  • Western offensives of the Germans in spring and summer 1918:
    • Operation Michael
    • Operation Georgette
    • Operation Blücher-Yorck
    • Operation Gneisenau
    • Operation Marne Protection-Reims

Second World War

→ Main article : Military operations in World War II

After 1945

Cold War

• from 1945 Operation Overcast & Operation Paperclip , Operation Backfire
• 1950
  • Operation Blueheart
  • Operation Chromite
• 1953 Operation Castor
• 1954 Operation Success : Intervention in Guatemala, USA
• 1956 Operation Homerun : US bombers fly daily from March to May 1956 over the Arctic to the northern Soviet Union to clarify the reaction of the Russian defense; officially the US government lies about navigational errors. The espionage flights with the U-2 in Operation Overflight across the interior of the Soviet Union continued until 1960 , also from the Federal Republic .
• 1956 Operation Musketeer : not carried out / see Suez crisis
• 1960s Operation Ortsac : Planned invasion of Cuba by the US (not carried out)
• 1961
  • Operation Anadyr
  • Operation Zapata / Bay of Pigs
• 1964 Operation Dragon Rouge and Dragon Noir
• 1965 Operation Rolling Thunder : USA enters Vietnam War
• 1974 Azorian Project : Lifting K-129
• 1976 Operation Entebbe / Thunderball / Thunderbolt / Jonathan : hostage rescue / Israel
• 1977 Operation Fire Magic
• 1982 Operation Black Buck : Remote air raid on Port Stanley

After the cold war

• 1983 Operation Dawn 3 : First Gulf War
• 1991 Operation Desert Storm : Second Gulf War
• 1995 Operation Oluja : Croatian offensive
• 2001 Enduring Freedom : primarily USA in Afghanistan
• 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom : Third Gulf War
• 2004 Operation Rainbow
• 2014 Operation Inherent Resolve : Alliance against the Islamic State in Syria

See also

• List of wars
• List of battles
• List of United States military operations
• List of military operations by Russia and the Soviet Union
• Naval battle