List of military missions, operations, and projects

Table of contents

1 Operations
2 Projects
3 Non-military operations
4 External links

Operations

Addition -- Canada's contribution to United Nations mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
Adler ("Eagle") -- German air offensive against Britain, as a prelude to Seel�we, 1940.
Agatha -- 1946 British attack on Hagana and Irgun in Palestine
''Ambassador -- British commando raid during World War II
Anaconda -- US effort to capture al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan.
Anadyr -- USSR plan to base nuclear weapons in Cuba; the cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Apollo -- Canadian Navy's operation in support of the United States forces in Afghanistan.
Argus -- detonation of nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere, 1959.
Artisan -- Canadian Forces contribution to the Rinas Airfield Rehabilitation Project in Tirana, Albania
Assistance -- Canada's assistance in the province of Manitoba after major flooding in the spring of 1997
Attila [1] -- German seizure and occupation of Vichy France, 1940.
Attila [2] -- Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus, 1974.
Barbarossa -- German invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941.
Birke ("Birch") -- German plan to withdraw from Northern Finland prior to the Lapland War, September 1944.
Birkhahn ("Black Cock") -- German withdrawl from Norway, 1945.
Blau ("Blue") -- German offensive at Voronezh, Russia, June 1942.
Bljesak ("Flash") -- Croatian offensive against western Slavonian parts of Krajina, 1995
Bl�cher -- German campaign in the Caucasus, April 1942
Bodenplatte ("Baseplate") -- German aerial attack on 27 Allied airbases in Europe, January 1945.
Bodyguard -- the Allied strategic deception plan for the Normandy landings
Caravan -- Canadian Forces contribution to the French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo
Central -- Canada's assistance in Central America after devastation of Hurricane Mitch in 1998
Chaperon -- Canada's contribution to the United Nations of one military observer (UNMO)
Chariot -- the British raid on St Nazaire, March 1942
Compass -- the British counter-offensive in Egypt/Libya, December 1940
Constable -- July 1997, Canada's contribution to United Nations mission in Haiti, to help build their national police
Cooney -- French commando raid.
Coronet -- Second of two prongs of the planned invasion of Japan, Downfall
Epsom -- British assault west of Caen, Normandy, 1944.
(Fall) Blau [1] ("Case Blue") -- Planned German air attack on England, 1939.
Fall Blau [2] ("Case Blue") -- German offensive in the southern USSR, 1942.
Cerberus -- Escape of German capital ships from Brest, France to home ports in Germany, February 12, 1942
Cobra -- American breakout from Normandy, 1944.
Crusader -- British attempt to relieve Tobruk (Libya), 1941.
Deadlight -- postwar scuttling of U-boats, 1945-1946.
Desert Shield -- buildup prior to Gulf War, 1990.
Desert Storm -- Gulf War, 1991.
Determination -- Canada's forces deployed to Arabian Gulf to force Iraq to comply with United Nations inspection agreements, in early 1998
Downfall -- planned Allied invasion of Japan.
- Olympic -- First of two prongs of the invasion of Japan.
- Coronet -- Second of two prongs of the invasion of Japan.
Donnerschlag ("Thunderbolt") -- Planned breakout of the German 6th Army from Stalingrad, December 1942.
Downwood -- attack on German dams in World War II.
Dragoon -- Allied landing in southern France, 1944.
Drumbeat -- German U-boat attack on east coast shipping of US, 1942.
Dynamo -- The Evacuation from Dunkirk
Echo -- Canada sends air forces to Aviano, Italy to enforce a no-fly zone over Balkan region (UNSFOR) and (UNKFOR)
Eclipse -- Deployment of Canadian soldiers to east Africa in support of United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
Edelweiss -- Proposed capture of the oil fields of Baku in the Caucasus by Axis forces, July 1942.
Eisenhammer -- Luftwaffe code name for a plan to destroy Soviet generating plants in the Moscow and Gorky areas in 1943. (Not the same as Operation Iron Hammer.)
El Dorado Canyon -- US strikes against Libya, 1986.
Enduring Freedom, US and UK invasion of Afghanistan, 2001-2002.
Entebbe - Israeli Entebbe operation 1976
Essential Harvest -- a month-long NATO mission of disarming ethnic Albanians in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2001.
Evening Light -- US attempt to rescue embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran, 1980.
Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") -- German offensive against western Europe, 1940.
Fall Weiss ("Case White") -- German invasion of Poland, 1939.
Felix -- Planned German invasion of Gibraltar via Spain, 1940-1941.
Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") -- Planned German capture of Leningrad, 1942.
Fischereiher ("Heron") -- German offensive to capture Stalingrad, 1942.
Forage -- Canadian contribution to NATO Operation Essential Harvest
Fortitude -- Allied deception of Germany, 1944.
Fr�hlingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") -- Last German counterattack against Russian forces in Hungary, March 1945.
Fusion -- Canada's combined contribution of Oprtation Allied Harmony and Operation Concordia
Granby -- British codename for operations during Gulf War in 1991.
Gold -- Covert Amrican tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
Golden Pheasant -- US deployment in Honduras, 1988.
Goodwood -- British breakout attempt in Normandy (France), 1944.
Greif ("Grab") -- German troops disguised as Allied soldiers capture bridges across the River Meuse in the Ardennes (Luxembourg and France), 1944.
Harmony -- Canada's contribution to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), which was created in February 1992 to ensure the protection and demilitarization of three "UN Protected Areas" in Croatia
Haven Denial -- U.S. and Italian forces against Taliban remnants and Al Qaeda fighters in southeast Afghanistan, July, 2003.
Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") -- Decoy invasion of Scotland in conjunction with Seel�we, 1940.
Herkules -- Planned Axis airborne invasion of Malta, 1942.
Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine") -- German counteroffensive in the Ardennes (Luxembourg and France), 1944.
Husky -- Allied invasion of Sicily, 1943.
Icarus -- Planned German invasion of Iceland, 1940.
Infinite Justice, original name for Enduring Freedom.
Iraqi Freedom -- coalition name for 2003 Iraq War.
Iron Hammer -- U.S. forces in Iraq "ferreting out" the opposition. (Not the same as Operation Eisenhammer.)
Jonathan -- rescue of hostages at Entebbe, Uganda in 1976.
Just Cause -- US invasion of Panama, 1989.
Kinetic -- Canada's contribution to NATO mission KFOR to secure Kosovo and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to provide humanitarian needs to displaced persons
Lightfoot -- first attack by British at El Alamein, 1942.
Marita -- German invasion of Greece, 1941.
Lost -- British commando raid in Brittany, June, 1944.
Margarethe -- German operation to keep Hungary from falling to Russia and defecting to the Allies, in March 1944.
Market Garden -- Allied airborne attempt to gain a Rhine crossing in the Netherlands, 1944.
Megaphone -- Canada's Department of National Defense work to return equipment used in Kosovo Operation Kinetic to Canada
Merkur ("Mercury") -- German invasion of Crete, 1941.
Mondscheinsonate ("Moonlight Sonata") -- German aerial raid on Coventry, November 1940.
Morgenrote ("Dawn") -- German counterattack against Anzio landings, January 1944.
Mountain Viper - U.S. and Afghan forces attacked suspected Taliban forces in Zabul province, Afghanistan, late August, 2003.
Narcissus -- British commando raid.
Nordlicht [1] ("Northern Lights") -- Planned German assault on Lenningrad, 1942.
Nordlicht [2] ("Northern Lights") -- German withdrawal from the Kola Peninsula and Finland into Norway in 1944.
Nordwind ("North Wind") -- German offensive in the Alsace region, January 1945.
Northwoods - plan to incite war between United States and Cuba in 1960s
Olympic -- First of two prongs of the invasion of Japan part of Downfall.
Oluja ("Storm") -- Croatian offensive against Krajina, 1995
Overlord -- Allied landings in Normandy (France), 1944.
- Bodyguard, Overall deception plan.
- Detroit, American airdrop in Normany.
- Chicago, American airdrop in Normandy.
- Dingson Free French Commando raid.
- Tonga, British airdrop in Normandy.
- Neptune, Overall Allied naval operations for the invasion.
- Maple, Allied naval minesweeping operations.
- Gambit, British midget submarine operations.
Northern Watch -- northern No-Fly Zone over Iraq, 1990s.
Paperclip - a part-military, part-scientific operation to gain information out of Nazi scientists after the Second World War.
Peace for Galilee - Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Peregrine - British Columbia, Canada forest fire fighting assitance by soldiers
Persistence -- Canada's mission in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia to recover bodies after crash of SwissAir Flight 111, on September 2nd, 1998
Peter Pan - transfer of Cubans to United States in 1960-1962
Platinfuchs ("Platinum Fox") -- German attack towards Murmansk from Finnish Petsamo as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
Polarfuchs ("Polar Fox") -- German attack towards Kandalaksha from Finnish Lapland as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
Power Pack -- US deployment in Santo Domingo, 1965.
Provide Comfort - provide security and humanitarian aid to Kurds in northern Iraq in 1991
Prudence -- Canada's participation in the Mission des Nations Unies dans la R�publique Centrafricaine (MINURCA)
Quadrant -- Canada's mission in Kosovo
Record -- Canada's mission to secure Iraq-Kuwait border after the [[1991] Gulf War
Recuperation -- Canada's assistance after major snowstorm hits eastern Canada, January 4th, 1998
Renntier ("Reindeer") -- German occupation of Finnish Petsamo in 1941.
Rhein�bung ("Exercise Rhine") -- German attacks on Allied shipping conducted by the ships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, 1941.
R�sselsprung [1] ("Knights Move") -- German naval campaign to sink Allied Arctic convoys between Britain and Russia, 1942.
R�sselsprung [2] ("Knights Move") -- German attempt to capture partisan leader Tito at his Bosnian HQ, May 1944.
Roundup -- Planned Allied landings in France, 1942.
Seel�we ("Sea Lion") -- Planned German invasion of Great Britain, 1940.
Sharp Edge -- evacuation of Americans from Liberia, 1990-1991.
Shining Express--evacuation of Americans from Liberia, 2003.
Silver -- Covert British tunnel in Austria.
Sledgehammer -- Planned Allied landings in France, 1942.
Sonneblume The movement of German troops to north Africa as a result of the British Operation Compass attack.
Sonnenwende ("Winter Solstice") -- German offensive to relieve Pomerania from Russian forces and halt advance on Berlin, February 1945.
Southern Watch -- southern No-Fly Zone over Iraq, 1990s.
St�sser -- German paratrooper drop intended to capture highway crossroads in the Ardennes (Luxembourg and France), December 1944.
Supercharge -- second attack by British at El Alamein, 1942.
Operation Support -- Canadian Forces operations of September 11th, 2001 to September 14th, 2001
Suzannah - Israel plan to bomb American interests in Egypt in 1954
Tanne Ost -- Failed German attempt to capture Suursaari from Finland in 1944.
Tanne West -- Planned German attempt to capture �land from Finland in 1944.
Telic -- British codename for operations against Iraq in 2003.
Theseus -- German offensive to drive Allies out of Cyrenaica and Egypt, 1942.
Torch -- American landings in North Africa, 1942.
Torrent -- Canada's assistance after devastating earthquake in Turkey, August 17th, 1999
Totalize -- Allied effort to trap German armor in Normandy, 1944.
Toucan -- Canada's contribution to United Nations Internatonal Force in East Timor (INTERFET) and United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)
Typhoon -- German autumn offensive to capture Moscow, October 1941.
Urgent Fury -- US invasion of Grenada, 1983.
Vittles -- Berlin Airlift in 1948
Warrior Sweep -- the first major military operation of the Afghan National Army, July 23, 2003
Watchtower -- US counterinvasion of Guadalcanal, 1942.
Weser�bung ("Weser Exercise") -- German invasions of Denmark and Norway, April 1940.
Wintergewitter ("Winter Storm") -- German attempt to relief encircled 6th Army in Stalingrad (Russia), 1942.
Zitadelle ("Citadel") -- German counteroffensive at Kursk (Russia), 1943.
Exercise Unified Spirite 2000 -- A large NATO exercise held every two years to train the armed forces of member nations in joint and combined operations.