Tchepone, southern Laotian panhandle

Japanese

The United States's Mandrel nuclear test series was a group of 52 nuclear tests conducted in 1969-1970. These tests followed the Operation Bowline series and preceded the Operation Emery series.

PAVN claim:

Operation Madad (Indian Navy)

Operation Love

Operation Maeng Da

Two police officers injured in Hakkari. Two soldiers killed and four wounded inDiyarbakir

American forces cross the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen

John Dale Ryan

Operation MARKET GARDEN

Unknown

Operation Lucid was a British plan to use fire ships to attack invasion barges that were gathering in ports on the northern coast of France in preparation for a German invasion of Britain in 1940. The attack was initiated several times in September and October that year, but unreliable ships and unfavourable weather caused the plan to be aborted on each occasion.

Unsuccessful Royalist attempt to disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Marigold was an American codename for a failed secret attempt to reach a compromise solution to the Vietnam War, carried out by Polish diplomat Janusz Lewandowski, a member of the International Control Commission, and the Italian ambassador in Saigon, Giovanni D'Orlandi, in collaboration with US ambassador in Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Al-Shabaab: Total size of 3,000 "hard-core fighters", 2,000 "allied militants" at end of 2012

Defence of Britain against German invasion

Sheikh Aweys

Operation Match

Operation Matador was an amphibious thrust, during the Burma Campaign in January 1945, to capture the strategic port of Kyaukpyu, located at the northern tip of Ramree Island, south of Akyab across Hunter's Bay, as well as the key airfield near the port. On 21 January 1945, an hour before the Indian 71st Brigade was to land, the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth opened fire with her main battery while planes from the escort carrier HMS Ameer spotted for her. The light cruiser HMS Phoebe also joined the bombardment, along with Liberators and Thunderbolts of No. 224 Group RAF which bombed and strafed to soften up the beaches. The assault troops landed unopposed and secured the beachhead; the following day, the Indian 4th Infantry Brigade landed.

Supported by:

Operation Magistral was a Soviet Army military operation during the Soviet war in Afghanistan that began in late November 1987 and ended in early January 1988.

Kurdistan Workers' Party
* KCK

Operation Maritime Guard

Operation Lilliput (World War II) was the name given to a convoy operation directed by G.H.Q. Operations Instructions Number 21 of 20 October 1942 for transportation of troops, weapons, and supplies in a regular transport service between Milne Bay and Oro Bay, New Guinea between 18 December 1942 and June 1943 in order "to cover reinforcement, supply, and development of the Buna-Gona area upon its anticipated capture" by the Australian 7th Division and the United States Army's 32d Division.

Can I get married through coffee milk!?

Operation Magic-Carpet

Operation Mad Ball is a 1957 military comedy from Columbia Pictures, produced by Jed Harris, directed by Richard Quine, that stars Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant, Arthur O'Connell, and Mickey Rooney. The screenplay is by Blake Edwards, Jed Harris, and Arthur Carter, based on an unproduced play by Carter.

Operation Linda Nchi ("Protect the country"; Swahili: Linda Nchi) is the codename for a co-ordinated military operation between the Kenyan military and the Somali military that began on 16 October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict zones of southern Somalia. The soldiers were in pursuit of Al-Shabaab militants that are alleged to have kidnapped several foreign tourists and aid workers inside Kenya.

Homeward bound GIs on board the carrier during Operation Magic Carpet.

Operation Lucky Strike

Julie Bell

Over 9,000

Operation Manta

Operation Maccabi

Operation Lobster I

Operation Maharat

Operation Matterhorn

Operation Matador was a plan of the British Malaya Command to move forces into position to counter a Japanese amphibious attack on Malaya.In 1937, Major-General William Dobbie, Officer Commanding Malaya (1935–1939), looked at Malaya's defences and reported that during the monsoon season, from October to March, landings could be made by an enemy on the east coast and bases could be established in Siam (Thailand).

Book

Operation Lucid

Operation Meade River was a US Marine Corps cordon and search operation that took place south of Danang, lasting from 20 November to 9 December 1968.

Japan

During World War II, Operation Lost was a reactive seven-man Special Air Service operation inserted into Brittany alongside Operation Dingson on 22–23 June 1944. The team, drawn from officers and men of 37 Military Mission and the SAS Brigade, was originally inserted to discover what had happened to the Dingson base after it had been attacked and dispersed by German led rear area security troops.These SAS operations trained and armed local fighters and harassed the defenders as they tried to react to the Overlord landings. The Lost team was active from 23 June to 18 July.The team was commanded by Major Oswald A. J. Cary-Elwes, (A career soldier who subsequently rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel) who was asked to join the SAS by its first Commanding Officer David Stirling. Stirling and Cary-Elwes were friends.The Lost team was given instructions to search for and re-organise irregular French resistance forces formerly in touch with the French SAS, but which had been attacked and dispersed into woodland. This was one of several tasks under the overall leadership of the one-armed Free French Colonel, later member of Parliament, Pierre Bourgoin (1907-1970), the CO of 4eme BIA (Bataillon de l'Infanterie de l'Air) or 2eme RCP (Regiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes), which was known, colloquially, to the British as '4 SAS'.Cary-Elwes and his batman were eventually exfiltrated by sea from northern Brittany on July 1944, on an escape line maintained by MI9, a now-defunct branch of the British War Office Directorate of Intelligence, at this period closely integrated with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) who had joint control of the branch and knew it as P15.

Operation Lunar Eclipse

Benoit Jobin

Courtney Hodges

Operation Mad Ball

Operation Lumberjack was a military operation with the goal of capturing the west bank of the Rhine River and seizing key German cities, near the end of World War II. The First United States Army launched the operation in March 1945 to capture strategic cities in Nazi Germany and to give the Allies a foothold along the Rhine.One unexpected outcome was the capture of the Ludendorff bridge, a strategic railroad bridge across the Rhine, in the Battle of Remagen.

Operation Market Garden

Operation Meade River

Operation Loadstone

Operation Marne Torch refers to two operations launched by Coalition forces in 2007 against al-Qaeda in Iraq in the Arab Jabour area of Babil province. This campaign is named after Operation Torch, the joint US/British invasion of French North Africa in 1942, presumably because of the two operations' similar thrust in to the enemies southern underbelly.The first operation, Marne Torch I began on 16 June 2007, when Multinational Division Central launched offensive operations against Sunni and Shi'ia extremists, as well as insurgents with Iranian influence in the city and surrounding regions of Arab Jabour in Babil province. The action was intended to clear terrorist sanctuaries southeast of Baghdad as well as reduce the flow of accelerants into that city by both combat and civil-military operations. 2000 coalition and 1000 Iraqi army soldiers disrupted insurgent operations by capturing, seizing, and clearing caches that support instability in the area.Marne Torch II was launched on 15 September 2007 in the Hawr Rajab area. Supported by a newly created Sons Of Iraq group from Arab Jabour, Coalition forces continued their push along the west bank of the Tigris river, killing or capturing 250 insurgents, destroying 12 boats being used by the insurgents to funnel weapons into Baghdad, and uncovering 40 weapons caches, often with tips from the Sons of Iraq.

Operation Manna was the codeword for a Second World War operation by the British and Greek forces in Greece in mid-October 1944, following the gradual withdrawal of the German occupying forces from the country.The operation included an airborne element, which was conducted by the British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade on 12 October, when elements of the 4th Parachute Battalion parachuted onto the Megara airfield 28 miles (45 km) outside of Athens.

* "u/s" : tanks made unfit for operations by any cause

Successful operation

Black Battalion

Brian Horrocks

Unknown regimental strength backed by ~50,000

Operation Locust was an operation by M Special Unit in New Guinea during World War II. It was held in conjunction with the better known Operation Whiting.

Mohamed Yusuf Haji

Operation Magic Carpet was the post-World War II operation by the War Shipping Administration to repatriate over eight million American military personnel from the European, Pacific, and Asian theaters. Hundreds of Liberty ships, Victory ships, and troop transports began repatriating soldiers from Europe in June 1945. Beginning in October 1945, over 370 navy ships were used for repatriation duties in the Pacific.

Soviet-DRA victory

Operation Lüttich

Operation Matador (1945)

Operation Lightning Blitz

Operation Marne Avalanche

Operation Lion Hunt II

Netherlands East Indies Section Operations

Operation Matterhorn was a military operation of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II for the strategic bombing of Japanese forces by B-29 Superfortresses based in India and China. Targets included Japan itself, and Japanese bases in China and South East Asia. The name comes from the Matterhorn, a mountain traditionally considered particularly difficult to climb.

Operation Mailfist was a planned Allied offensive to liberate Singapore from Japanese occupation during World War II. It was intended to follow on from the landing in Malaya, Operation Zipper, and take place between December 1945 and March 1946. However, it was not conducted as Japan surrendered shortly before Operation Zipper was to have been launched. Instead, Singapore was re-occupied in the unopposed Operation Tiderace.

Operation Marne Courageous was a military operation in 2007 conducted by the United States 101st Airborne Division and Iraqi Security Forces between 16 - 19 November 2007 in Anbar province, Iraq.The operation involved 750 troops and 70 civilians, supported by helicopter gunships, who occupied the villages of Owesat and Betra, approximately 15 miles from Baghdad. The objective of the operation was to secure the western side of the Euphrates, an area formerly occupied by insurgents. A permanent base was constructed, Patrol Base Kemple, to maintain security in the area. The patrol base was named after Corporal Andrew Kemple, who was killed on 12 February 2006 while serving in Iraq and would be commanded by Captain Terry N. Hilderbrand.

Shahnawaz Tanai

Operation Mameluke Thrust was a US Marine Corps operation that took place in Happy Valley southwest of Danang, lasting from 19 May to 24 August 1968.

Operation M.D.

Operation MO

Holding operations delayed

Operation Manna was the codeword for a Second World War operation by the British and Greek forces in Greece in mid-October 1944, following the gradual withdrawal of the German occupying forces from the country.The operation included an airborne element, which was conducted by the British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade on 12 October, when elements of the 4th Parachute Battalion parachuted onto the Megara airfield 28 miles (45 km) outside of Athens. The prevailing weather conditions forced the abandonment of further parachute operations and it was not until 14 October that the rest of the brigade, less the 5th Parachute Battalion, arrived. After landing, the 4th and 6th Parachute Battalions marched on Athens. On 16 October, the 5th Battalion and the brigade's glider-borne element arrived.The 2nd Para Brigade was reinforced by the British 23rd Armoured Brigade, and the British force took over the protection of the city.The British and Free Greek navies transported British and Greek troops, as well as the Greek government in exile, to Athens.

Operation Mar Kardad

Operation Litani

Operation Mandrel

Gerard C. Bucknall

Geoffrey Faithful

Operation May Day was a series of entomological warfare (EW) tests conducted by the U.S. military in Savannah, Georgia in 1956.

Operation Malaya is a 1953 British documentary about the actions of British troops during the Malayan Emergency.It was also known as Terror in the Jungle.

Operation Matador was an amphibious thrust, during the Burma Campaign in January 1945, to capture the strategic port of Kyaukpyu, located at the northern tip of Ramree Island, south of Akyab across Hunter's Bay, as well as the key airfield near the port. On 21 January 1945, an hour before the Indian 71st Brigade was to land, the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth opened fire with her main battery while planes from the escort carrier HMS Ameer spotted for her.

Greece

Operation Magic Sword

MG Carl A. Youngdale

Operation Manhunt is a 1954 American drama film directed by Jack Alexander and written by Paul Monash. The film stars Harry Townes, Irja Jensen, Jacques Aubuchon, Robert Goodier, Albert Miller and Caren Shaffer. The film was released on October 4, 1954, by United Artists.

Operation Martyr Yalçın

B-52 Stratofortress on bomb run

Operation Lilliput

Kurt Student

Blue Battalion = 300

Infiltration

Colonel Terry Ferrell

Operation Marne Husky

Kurt Meyer

Panjwaye and Zhari districts, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

Operation Malheur I

Operation Market-Garden

Allied victory

United States

Operation Mars, also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against German forces during World War II. It took place between 25 November and 20 December 1942 around the Rzhev salient in the vicinity of Moscow.The offensive was a joint operation of the Soviet Western Front and Kalinin Front coordinated by Georgy Zhukov. The offensive was one in a series of particularly bloody engagements collectively known in Soviet and Russian histories as the Battles of Rzhev, which occurred near Rzhev, Sychevka and Vyazma between January 1942 and March 1943. The battles became known as the "Rzhev meat grinder" ("Ржевская мясорубка") for their huge losses, particularly on the Soviet side. For many years they were relegated to a footnote in Soviet military history.

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Operation Maui Peak

The Northern Command Aerial Sensor Platform, also known as Operation Lowrider, is an American surveillance program intended to aid in combat against Mexican drug cartels, in effect since 2011. While the United States has long aided the Mexican government, the program marks a shift in US tactics.Re-purposing techniques and equipment honed in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lowrider employs manned, single engine surveillance planes that track the day-to-day movements of cartel personnel.

Operation Maui Peak was a US Marine Corps operation that took place near the Thường Ðức Camp southwest of Danang, lasting from 1 to 19 October 1968.

Operation Mallard

Send agents to infiltrate Britain from Norway and France

Abtcon Pictures

Operation Madad

Sodom to kalya.jpg

Operation Match was the first computer dating service in the United States, begun in 1965. The predecessor of this was created in London and was called as St. James Computer Dating Service (later to become Com-Pat) started by Joan Ball in 1964. Users filled out a paper questionnaire which they mailed in with a $3 fee. The questionnaire was geared to young college students seeking a date, not a marriage partner. Questions included “Do you believe in a God who answers prayer?” and “Is extensive sexual activity in preparation for marriage part of ‘growing up?’” The questionnaires were transferred to punched cards and processed on an IBM 7090 computer at the Avco service bureau in Wilmington, Massachusetts. A week or two later, the user received an IBM 1401 print out in the mail listing the names and telephone numbers of their matches.Operation Match was started by Harvard University undergraduate students Jeffrey C. Tarr, David L. Crump and Vaughan Morrill, with help from Douglas H. Ginsburg, then a student at Cornell. Tarr, Crump and Ginsburg formed a company called Compatibility Research, Inc. and rolled out the service in several cities.

Black Battalion = 300

Operation Medina was a search and destroy operation conducted from 11–20 October 1967 in the Hải Lăng Forest Reserve south of Quảng Trị, South Vietnam.

Operation Lightspeed (PRLR episode)

Operation Longcloth

Operation Maslenica

Western Al Anbar, Iraq

Operation Magic Carpet

* Operation Tiger
* Operation Lion
* Operation Flounder
* Operation Walnut
* Operation Whiting
* Operation Apricot

Other Iraqi Insurgents

Search and rescue, disaster relief, humanitarian relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction

German victory

Operation Marne Avalanche was a US military operation that occurred in southern Baghdad in July 2007 as part of Operation Phantom Thunder. The goal of the offensive operation was to stop southern Baghdad from being used as a haven and to prevent the movement of weapons, munitions and insurgent activity into Baghdad.
Transitioned to Operation Marne Husky at the commencement of Operation Phantom Strike

AA gun units

Mobile 1 = 550

Operation Mallorca was a United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation, which targeted money laundering operations of Colombian drug traffickers, which resulted in the arrests of 36 people.

Bataillon Commando 208

Operation Martlet

First wave against PKK and ISIL targets began on 24 July 2015

Central Celebes, Dutch East Indies

Operation Maple

Operation Matador (1941)

Operation Manifest Victory

Operation Lighthouse was the name given to the failed experimental launch of four Aggregate 3 liquid-fuel rockets by Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger on the German island of Greifswalder Oie in December 1937.

Operation Manchu

Operation Lorraine

David MacDonald

the Iraq War

Operation McClaine

Operation Mallorca

Albert Miller

Herbert E. Ing Jr.

Liberation of Malaya and Singapore

Total forces:

Ken returns to his high school graduation where boys give their second button to the girl they like. He gave his button to another girl, making Rei disappointed. He gives his best shot in order to touch Rei's heart.

Operation Mars

Operation Magic Carpet was the post-World War II operation by the War Shipping Administration to repatriate over eight million American military personnel from the European, Pacific, and Asian theaters. Hundreds of Liberty ships, Victory ships, and troop transports began repatriating soldiers from Europe in June 1945. Beginning in October 1945, over 370 navy ships were used for repatriation duties in the Pacific. Warships, such as aircraft carriers, battleships, hospital ships, and large numbers of assault transports were used. The European phase of Operation Magic Carpet concluded in February 1946 while the Pacific phase continued until September 1946.

Operation Maritime Monitor

Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front

First edition cover

Operation Maccabee

Operation Luna

Operation Maddad

Operation Mameluke Thrust

Co-ordinated forces capture Qoqani, Kolbio, Beledweyne, Fafadun, Elade, Hosingo, Badhadhe, Baidoa, El Buur, Afgooye

Operation Lizard

Afghan Mujahideen

Operation Mallard was the codename for an airborne forces operation, which was conducted by the British Army on 6 June 1944, as part of the Normandy landings during the Second World War.The mission's objective was to airlift glider infantry of the 6th Airlanding Brigade and divisional troops to reinforce the British 6th Airborne Division on the left flank of the British invasion beaches.

Operation Lions Pride

Operation Lucky Alphonse

Operation MINARET

Coalition victory

Locations of B-29 bomber bases in China and the main targets they attacked in East Asia during Operation Matterhorn

British success

Operation Longhorn

The Netherlands and Germany

Emergency response to 2010 Pakistan floods

Netherlands

Ivan Konev

the Pacific Theatre of World War II

Mukhtar Robow

Allied operational failure

Operation Marne Courageous was a military operation in 2007 conducted by the United States 101st Airborne Division and Iraqi Security Forces between 16 - 19 November 2007 in Anbar province, Iraq.The operation involved 750 troops and 70 civilians, supported by helicopter gunships, who occupied the villages of Owesat and Betra, approximately 15 miles from Baghdad. The objective of the operation was to secure the western side of the Euphrates, an area formerly occupied by insurgents.

Allied victory
*Al-Shabaab weakened
*Kenyan forces integrated into AMISOM

Operation Magic Sword was a 1965 U.S. military operation designed to test the effectiveness of the sea-borne release of insect vectors for biological agents.

Walter Model

Bernard Montgomery

Operation Lobster

Operation Manhunt

Operation Marketgarden

Operation Lighthouse (1937)

East Asia

* "u/s" (unserviceable): tanks made unfit for operations by any cause

Operation Lobster I (Unternehmen Hummer I in German) was an Abwehr plan to infiltrate three German agents into Ireland, in July 1940. It was part of a wider series of missions carried out within the framework of Operation Lobster during World War II.

Jacques Aubuchon

Operation Lions Paw

Operation Lightning Strike (disambiguation)

indecisive

3 combined corps (with 13 infantry divisions and 2 paratrooper divisions)

the Battle of Normandy

Lewis H. Brereton

Operation Mardonius

Hüseyin Fevzi Tekin

Stanisław Sosabowski

Operation Lifesaver a.k.a. Mint Test

Operation Martyr Yalcin

Operation Malaya

Operation Lion

Operation Makeover

Operation Marion was a military operation by the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the South African Border War. The origins can be traced back to the murder of Piet Retief on 6 February 1838 by the Zulu king Dingane, which led to an alliance between the Boer (later to become Afrikaner) people and the Zulus, whereby Afrikaner security was deemed to be closely linked to Zulu security.

Blue Battalion

Flood affected areas of Pakistan

Operation Little Vittles

—Ilya Ehrenburg

Operation Magistral

Operation MONGOOSE

Operation Market Sweep

Waves of paratroopers land in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in September 1944

Ken returns to their past celebration of new year's eve. He intentionally let his friends go and see the new year's sunrise by themselves, hoping that he would forget all about Rei.

One patrol boat damaged.

Operation Lumberjack

Ahmad Godane

Operation Light

Operation Manna

Operation Longstreet

Iraqi Army

Operation Matateh

Fred Feldkamp Productions

Cemil Bayık

Boat going from Mount Sodom to Kalya before the war

Operation Magneto was a military operation in August 1985 to transport UNITA soldiers by the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.

English

Operation Mars, also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against German forces during World War II. It took place between 25 November and 20 December 1942 around the Rzhev salient in the vicinity of Moscow.The offensive was a joint operation of the Soviet Western Front and Kalinin Front coordinated by Georgy Zhukov.

GUNT-controlled area in Chad until 1986/87 , "red line" on 15th and 16th latitude and Libyan-occupied Aouzou-strip

Major Klug

Operation Marne Torch II

Indecisive

Are the tears I shed on New Year's Eve the real thing?

In 1940 the Germans decided to send agents and saboteurs to infiltrate Britain from Norway and Northern France. This plan was given the codename Operation Lobster (German: Unternehmen Hummer). It remained in place despite the collapse of plans for Operation Sea Lion (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe).

Operation Maritime Monitor was a NATO operation during the Bosnian War to monitor compliance with sanctions imposed against the former Yugoslavia under United Nations Security Council resolutions 713 (1991) and 757 (1992). The operation began on July 16, 1992 and ran until November 22, 1992. Under Maritime Monitor, NATO ships from STANAVFORMED and STANAVFORLANT, NATO's standing naval force in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, patrolled in international waters off the coast of Montenegro.

Operation Marne Courageous

Operation Massacre

Residential area of Beit HaArava before the war

Jalaluddin Haqqani

Operation Lion was formed to establish an intelligence centre on central Sulawesi (called Celebes at the time). First Lieutenant I.H.T. Hees, 1st Cl. B. Belloni, a telegraphist and Sailor J.L. Brandon comprised the party which left Darwin by the prahu Somoa on 24 June 1942, to land near Wotoe, 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Malili, on Celebes. Lieutenant Hees had previously worked as an engineer for the department of public works and it was hoped he could contact one of his "mandoers" (overseers). The party was contacted by radio on 7 November 1942, however their signals were too weak to be received. On 14 December 1942, two Dutch NCO's (from the NEI Section) were in Darwin awaiting movement to LION party, but it was suspected that LION had come under Japanese control they were not dispatched.On 5 January 1945, a party of five Indonesians under the codename of Operation Apricot left Darwin to ascertain the fate of Operation Lion. The leader was captured; the remainder were evacuated by Catalina flying boat on 31 January 1945.

Erich Brandenberger

Operation Maeng Da was a Royal Lao Government military offensive aimed at disrupting the crucial communist supply route of the Second Indochina War, the Ho Chi Minh trail. Launched from a rendezvous point near Vang Tai, Laos, on 2 July 1970 as a three-battalion assault on the major People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) transshipment center at Tchepone, Laos, it ran into stiff resistance from the PAVN 9th Regiment from 11–15 July.

Failed. Missing In Action

Operation Lustre

Odon Valley, France

Operation Lotus

Operation Madad (Hindi: Operation Aid) was a disaster relief operation undertaken by the Indian Armed Forces in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Madad was focused on rescue and relief efforts on the East Coast of the Indian Mainland. Most efforts were concentrated on Tamil Nadu, which bore the brunt of the tsunami, and in Andhra Pradesh.Operation Sea Waves was simultaneously launched to focus disaster relief operations in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Kenya: More than 6,000 security personnel at peak, including police

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Miles Dempsey

Charles Lawton Jr.

Operation May Day

Operation MOBILE

Operation Lightning Hammer II

Islamic state of Iraq

Operation Marquetalia

Operation MachStorm

Hulusi Akar

Marigold was an American codename for a failed secret attempt to reach a compromise solution to the Vietnam War, carried out by Polish diplomat Janusz Lewandowski, a member of the International Control Commission, and the Italian ambassador in Saigon, Giovanni D'Orlandi, in collaboration with US ambassador in Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. at the end of 1966.In his 2012 book, James Hershberg argues that had not the USA missed this opportunity, direct talks between the United States and North Vietnam could have begun (roughly a year-and-a-half before they actually did, in Paris, in May 1968), the war (or at least the massive US direct military involvement in it) might have ended sooner, and the number of Americans who perished in the war might not have escalated from 6,250 to over 58,000.The suspended bombing of Hanoi by the Americans during the period when Levandowski's mission was there in late November was interpreted as a subtle hint that the USA was open to talks. Via Lewandowski's mediation, both the North Vietnamese and US Governments agreed that a direct meeting would take place between their ambassadors in Warsaw, at which the US Ambassador, John A. Gronouski, would confirm that Washington indeed adhered to the positions (known as the "Ten Points") that Lewandowski had conveyed to Hanoi from Lodge. However the efforts halted when bombing in the Hanoi area resumed (for the first time in more than five months) on the 2 and 4, and again on 13–14 December 1966. US President Lyndon Johnson had authorized the continued strikes despite warnings from the Poles, and then from senior members of his own national security team, that any further attacks on Hanoi might cause Marigold to collapse. After the Poles (evidently reflecting Hanoi's wishes) broke off the initiative on December 14, Johnson belatedly halted bombing within a ten-mile radius of Hanoi's center, but despite Polish urging the North Vietnamese leadership refused to reconsider its decision to retract its agreement for direct contacts. Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki relayed Hanoi's final rejection to Gronouski on December 30, and Marigold was dead.The episode first leaked into public print in a pair of articles by Robert H. Estabrook in The Washington Post in February 1967 and was then the subject of an intense investigation by Los Angeles Times reporters David Kraslow and Stuart H. Loory, who published their findings in The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam (New York: Random House, 1968). The American side of the affair first emerged in declassified US included in a lengthy chronology included in the Pentagon Paper's diplomatic volumes, which were not leaked by Daniel Ellsberg but emerged only gradually.

Abboud Qanbar

*Amchitka Island, Alaska
*near Parachute, Colorado
*NTS Area 12, Rainier Mesa
*NTS Area 16, Shoshone Mountain
*NTS Area 19, 20, Pahute Mesa
*NTS Areas 5, 11, Frenchman Flat
*NTS, Areas 1-4, 6-10, Yucca Flat

the South African Border War

MG Donn J. Robertson

Operation Linebacker II was a US Seventh Air Force and US Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombing campaign, conducted against targets in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) during the final period of US involvement in the Vietnam War. The operation was conducted from 18 to 29 December 1972, leading to several informal names such as "The December Raids" and "The Christmas Bombings". Unlike the Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Linebacker interdiction operations, Linebacker II was to be a "maximum effort" bombing campaign to "destroy major target complexes in the Hanoi and Haiphong areas, which could only be accomplished by B-52s". It saw the largest heavy bomber strikes launched by the US Air Force since the end of World War II. Linebacker II was a modified extension of the Operation Linebacker bombings conducted from May to October, when the emphasis of the new campaign shifted to attacks by B-52s rather than smaller tactical fighter aircraft.

Operation Lucky Alphonse was a British Armed Forces operation that occurred during the EOKA insurgency in Cyprus. The British Army lost 25 men, mostly as a result of road accidents (7) and a forest fire that killed 13 men of the Gordon Highlanders, 5 Norfolks and two from the Parachute Regiment.

Otto Weidinger

Operation Medina

Operation Matador

incomplete estimates:

Richard Nelson Gale

Bataillon Volontaires 25

Operation Mardonius was a military operation directed against German ships in occupied Norway, planned and carried out in 1943 by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). The outcome of the operation was sinking of two ships in the harbour of Oslo, Ortelsburg of Hamburg and Tugela.

Operation Linebacker II

Operation Liddington

the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

Operation Lion Pounce was a series of operations conducted by the Multi-national force in and around Diwaniyah (Iraq) to disrupt, isolate and neutralize militants, insurgents and criminal organizations.

General Rick Lynch

Operation Love (プロポーズ大作戦, Puropōzu Daisakusen) is a Japanese TV drama series that was aired on Fuji TV. The series started on April 16, 2007 and ended with 11 episodes on June 24, 2007. A special (SP) aired on March 25, 2008.A Korean remake of the series, Operation Proposal, starring Yoo Seung-ho and Park Eun-bin, aired in 2012. A Chinese remake of the same title, Operation Love starring EXO's Lay and Chen Duling, aired in 2017.

During the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, or Iraq War, Operation Market Sweep was a successful raid into the downtown Fallujah arms market by troops from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division on 13 January 2004.Numerous attempts had been made by coalition forces prior to Market Sweep, but none had yielded desirable results.

Operation Martlet (also known as Operation Dauntless) was part of a series of British attacks to capture the town of Caen and its environs from German forces during the Battle of Normandy of World War II begun by the Allies. It was a preliminary operation undertaken on 25 June 1944 by XXX Corps of the British Second Army, to capture Rauray and the area around Noyers.

Operation Magician

Turkey
* Turkish Air Force
* Turkish Land Forces
* Turkish Gendarmerie

Operation Lightning Hammer

Croatian tactical victory

Operation London Bridge

Operation Maritime Monitor was a NATO operation during the Bosnian War to monitor compliance with sanctions imposed against the former Yugoslavia under United Nations Security Council resolutions 713 (1991) and 757 (1992). The operation began on July 16, 1992 and ran until November 22, 1992. Under Maritime Monitor, NATO ships from STANAVFORMED and STANAVFORLANT, NATO's standing naval force in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, patrolled in international waters off the coast of Montenegro. While NATO forces patrolled off the Montenegrin coast, the Western European Union ran a parallel operation, code-named Operation Sharp Vigilance in the Otranto Strait. Maritime Monitor was terminated on November 22, 1992 and replaced by the more aggressive Operation Maritime Guard.

southern Baghdad, Iraq

Ken returns to just before Rei's birthday and also on her eve of her major architectural project.

OneHarbin Z-9destroyed (mechanical failure)

Ken returns to just before Tada proposes to Rei.

For the 1937 test launches of the A3 rockets in Germany, see Operation Lighthouse (1937).Operation Lighthouse (OPL) was an HIV/AIDS prevention programme implemented by Population Services International's India wing during January 2001 to December 2005 which deployed a set of integrated communication, advocacy and service provision strategies to decrease the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among vulnerable groups, by focusing activities in 12 major port communities in India. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), OPL focused on desired behaviour change outcomes in the areas of increased condom usage, partner reduction, increased Sexually Transmitted Infection treatment and increased usage of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services. The program targeted communication activities, mobile or conveniently-located VCT facilities for vulnerable populations, and a ground-breaking mass media campaign targeted to men in Mumbai titled – "Balbir Pasha ko AIDS hoga kya?" (Hindi:Will Balbir Pasha get AIDS?).Considering the nature of the HIV epidemic in India, OPL focused on high-risk adult males because of their potential to infect their wives and girlfriends in the general population. Among this group, medium to high exposure to OPL activities is correlated with a decrease in non-spousal sex and increased condom use with non-spousal partners.

Operation Medak Pocket/Archive 3

Operation Mass Appeal was an operation set up by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was a campaign aimed at planting stories in the media about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. The existence of the operation was exposed in December 2003, although officials denied that the operation was deliberately disseminating misinformation. The MI6 operation secretly incorporated the United Nations Special Commission investigating Iraq's alleged stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) into its propaganda efforts by recruiting UN weapons inspector and former MI6 collaborator Scott Ritter to provide copies of UN documents and reports on their findings to MI6.Former UN arms inspector Scott Ritter revealed in his book, Iraq Confidential (2005), the existence of an MI6-run psychological warfare effort, known as Operation Mass Appeal. According to Ritter: "Mass Appeal served as a focal point for passing MI6 intelligence on Iraq to the media, both in the UK and around the world. The goal was to help shape public opinion about Iraq and the threat posed by WMD." MI6 propaganda specialists claimed they could spread the misinformation through "editors and writers who work with us from time to time".Ritter, in an interview with Amy Goodman of the US news website Democracy Now!, described how he, as an arms inspector for the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction—and UNSCOM itself—became deeply involved in MI6's "Operation Mass Appeal":I ran intelligence operations for the United Nations in regards to the disarmament of Iraq. That was my job. Part of this job in 1997 and 1998 took on a propaganda aspect, given the fact that we had launched a series of controversial and confrontational inspections in Iraq, which although successful from a disarmament standpoint in exposing aspects of the Iraqi account which were not accurate, were causing problems for the United Nations in the Security Council […] We made a decision. We, being Richard Butler, the Executive Chairman who ran UNSCOM, and his senior staff members, of which I was one, that we needed to clean up our public image, and we did a number of things […] [In December of 1997] I was approached by the British intelligence service, which I had, again, a long relationship with, of an official nature, to see if there was any information in the archives of UNSCOM that could be handed to the British, so that they could in turn work it over, determine its veracity, and then seek to plant it in media outlets around the world, in an effort to try to shape the public opinion of those countries, and then indirectly, through, for instance, a report showing up in the Polish press, shape public opinion in Great Britain and the United States.I went to Richard Butler with the request from the British. He said that he supported this, and we initiated a cooperation that was very short-lived. The first reports were passed to the British sometime in February of 1998. There was a detailed planning meeting in June of 1998, and I resigned in August of 1998. [...] This is an operation — Operation Mass Appeal, that had been going on prior to UNSCOM being asked to be the source of particular data, and it’s an operation that continued after my resignation.

Operation Lion Pounce

Operation Magic Fire (German: Operation Feuerzauber) may refer to:the airlift of the Franco's Army of Africa from Morocco to the Spanish mainland at the outset of the Spanish Civil War by German transport aircraftthe liberation of Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977

David Petraeus

Operation Maple was a series of World War II operations in Italy in support of the Anzio landings. It comprised separate operations by the British Special Air Service (2 SAS), starting on 7 January 1944. There were mixed results: one (Thistledown) was successful, but the other (Driftwood) was not and its objective had to be destroyed by a subsequent operation (Baobab). None of the members of the first two parties returned safely, they were either captured or missing.In support of the Anzio landings, it was required to cut rail links north of Rome, and elsewhere on the east coast. To this end, rail lines around Terni and Orvieto were to be attacked by four men of Operation Thistledown; this was successful, but all the team's members were captured. Driftwood consisted of two four man teams intended to cut the lines between Urbino and Fabriano, and Ancona and Rimini. Their fate is unknown, but they were surmised to be drowned, or captured and executed. A reinforcement party (Baobab) was landed by sea on 30 January and successfully destroyed a bridge between Pesaro and Fano.

Bataillon Voluntaires 25

Operation Maestral

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Operation Lorraine was a French military operation of the First Indochina War.

Operation Market

Operation Mallard was the codename for an airborne forces operation, which was conducted by the British Army on 6 June 1944, as part of the Normandy landings during the Second World War.The mission's objective was to airlift glider infantry of the 6th Airlanding Brigade and divisional troops to reinforce the British 6th Airborne Division on the left flank of the British invasion beaches. Using two landing zones, one to the west of the Caen canal and the other to the east of the River Orne, Mallard was the third airborne operation involving units of the division on D-Day. The first, Operation Deadstick, had captured what are now known as the Pegasus and Horsa Bridges. Operation Tonga followed, dropping the division's two parachute brigades near Caen to the east.Mallard proved successful with 246 of the 256 gliders towed by aircraft from No. 38 Group RAF and No. 48 Group, arriving safely at their landing zones. The landings included the first Tetrarch tanks to be delivered into combat by air.

Operation Mandarine Squeeze

North Vietnam

Operation Maritime Guard was a NATO blockade, in the international waters of the Adriatic Sea, of the former Yugoslavia.

Transitioned to Operation Marne Husky at the commencement ofOperation Phantom Strike

Operation Matador (disambiguation)

Veljko Milanković

Operation Lumberjack was a military operation with the goal of capturing the west bank of the Rhine River and seizing key German cities, near the end of World War II. The First United States Army launched the operation in March 1945 to capture strategic cities in Nazi Germany and to give the Allies a foothold along the Rhine.One unexpected outcome was the capture of the Ludendorff bridge, a strategic railroad bridge across the Rhine, in the Battle of Remagen. Despite German attempts to destroy the bridge, Allied forces captured it intact and were able to use it for ten days to establish a beachhead on the far side, before it finally collapsed at 3:00 PM on 17 March 1945 after months of aircraft bombing, direct artillery hits, near misses, and demolition attempts.

Operation Chaos

Operation Madad, (lit. Operation Help), was a non-combative and assistance military operation commenced and executed by Pakistan Navy after the massive national floods hit the country. Its primary operations were to conduct SAR raids to support affected areas of Pakistan following the 2010 Pakistan floods. Madadwas the major and the largest naval operation commenced by the Pakistan Navy since the 1971 Naval conflict.

Julius Karangi

Repatriation of American military personnel from Europe, Asia, and the Pacific.

Bataillon Guerrier 121

Gustav-Adolf von Zangen

Operation Locust

Operation Little Switch

Operation Lowrider

the Pacific War of World War II

the Turkey–ISIL conflict and the PKK rebellion (2015–present)

Operation Lila

the Battle for Caen

Operation Linnet

Satellite image of the Indus River at the time of floods.

Operation Mawtini

Are those who say they'll do it tomorrow idiots?

Other battalions unknown

Total: 21–72 killed, 152 injured
* 10–31 TFG soldiers killed, 128 injured
* 13 KDF soldiers killed, 21 injured
* 3 Ras Kamboni militants killed, 3 injured
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67 allied forces killed
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One Harbin Z-9 destroyed

Operation Madad (Pakistan Navy)

Operation Maslenica was a Croatian Army offensive launched in January 1993 to retake territory in northern Dalmatia and Lika from Krajina Serb forces, with the stated military objective of pushing the Serbs back from approaches to Zadar, Maslenica and Karlobag, allowing a secure land route between Dalmatia and northern Croatia to be opened. While an undoubted net Croatian tactical success (the frontlines shifted in Croatian favour, and Serb military losses far exceeded those of the Croatians), the operation was only a moderate strategic success, and was condemned by the UN Security Council.

Operation MHCHAOS

John Croydon

Unsuccessful Royalist attempt to disrupt theHo Chi Minh Trail

Operation Mawtini was launched on 15 July 2007 by the Regimental Combat Team 2, located in western Al Anbar province, to neutralize attempts by anti-Iraqi Forces to re-establish a presence in key urban areas along the Euphrates River valley.The operation called for over 9,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers, and sailors, along with elements of the Iraqi Army, to strike deep into the less-traveled regions of RCT-2's operating area.

Collecting intelligence

Aid UNITA to transport its troops to Cazombo

Ken returns to the last photo of the slideshow where they are at Tada's party, where Tada introduces Rei to all his friends. In the middle of the event, Ken drags Rei into their elementary school.

Hassan Turki

Iraqi insurgency

Robert Goodier

Operation Lot

Tactical Coalition victory

Did not take place; replaced by Operation Tiderace following the Japanese surrender

Operation Medusa

German Armoured Column destroyed during Operation Lüttich, August 1944

Operation Matador was a plan of the British Malaya Command to move forces into position to counter a Japanese amphibious attack on Malaya.In 1937, Major-General William Dobbie, Officer Commanding Malaya (1935–1939), looked at Malaya's defences and reported that during the monsoon season, from October to March, landings could be made by an enemy on the east coast and bases could be established in Siam (Thailand). He predicted that landings could be made at Songkhla and Pattani in Siam, and Kota Bharu in Malaya. He recommended large reinforcements to be sent immediately. His predictions turned out to be correct, but his recommendations were ignored.In August 1941, the Commander-in-Chief (CinC) of British Far East Command Air Chief Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham submitted a plan, codenamed Matador, to London for approval (PRO record FO 371/28163). The plan relied on the assumption that the Japanese would land on the east coast of Siam at Songkhla and Pattani, then advance south to Jitra and Kroh. It was envisaged that two forces could intercept them just over the border in Thailand, long enough for the main force to assemble and attack. However, there were several problems with the plan. In January 1941, a request for additional resources remained unfulfilled that the plan intended to use and the previous year Sir Josiah Cosby, the British Ambassador in Siam, signed a non-aggression pact with Prime Minister Pibul of Siam.On 5 December 1941, when the threat of Japanese invasion became more likely, the plan was modified to use the forces available. It was to be put into action as soon as an attack was imminent. If an enemy attacked or was invited into Siam, troops under British command would rush to Songkhla and defend it against a seaborne attack. This job was allocated to Major-General Murray-Lyon's Indian 11th Infantry Division who also had to defend Jitra. These two tasks over-stretched his resources, and made his objectives difficult to accomplish.On 5 December, London gave permission for CinC Far East Command to decide if Operation Matador should be activated. The primary strategic decision to be decided upon, was whether a pre-emptive strike should be launched on Siam prior to any Japanese landings. The Malaya Command was responsible for the detailed planning of Operation Matador, and on 6 December 1941 it had reworked the plan and allocated forces for immediate deployment. That same evening, in a meeting with Governor Sir Shenton Thomas and CinC Brooke-Popham, General Officer Commanding Malaya Arthur Percival recommended that such a pre-emptive attack was premature. It has been suggested, that with hindsight, this was the incorrect strategic decision.However, if Matador had been implemented the Japanese had already put together contingency plans. They would use the Bangkok airport, and the airfields of Southern Siam, to establish air superiority and then invade from the Kra Isthmus.

Operation Mana

Operation Lightning Strike (military operation)

Operation Meebos

, which participated in Operation Maritime Guard.

Poland

Operation Lion (1942)

Marines of the 5th Marine Regiment deploy by helicopter to begin the operation

backed by Group 559

Two Marines, watch the sun go down while standing on the gun line before combined arms training as part of the first week of the operation.

Operation Mailfist

Georgy Zhukov

Operation Margarethe I

Operation Luna is a science fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, published in August 1999; it is the sequel to the 1971 fixup novel Operation Chaos by the same author.It centers around a space flight attempt and the efforts of Coyote and several Oriental antagonists to stop it.

Angola

the Invasion of Germany in World War II

Operation Marne-Rheims

U.S. victory

During World War II, Operation Mandibles was a planned 1940/1941 British amphibious assault on Rhodes, Leros and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea. Planned by Roger Keyes of the Special Operation branch, it was never executed. See Operation Hercules and Operation Accolade."

Maslenica on the map of Croatia, 1991/1992. Serbian-held territories are highlighted in red.

Operation Marne Thunderbolt

right

January 1944

the Vietnam War

Can I get married by the second button?

Operation Matador (Iraq)

(including 34 B-52s and 4 F-111s; this includes two B-52s shot down by MiG-21 fighters)

Operation Lion's Roar

the aftermath of World War II

Irja Jensen

2 panzer corps (5 panzer divisions, 3 motorized divisions)

Operation Marita

NTS - Underground Testing 009.jpg

Operation Lightning Strike

Operation Maple (Italy)

Operation Masher/White Wing

Two police officers injured in Hakkari. Two soldiers killed and four wounded in Diyarbakir

Operation Manacle was the name given to a series of British Commando raids during the Second World War.The raids were conducted by Layforce II and ad hoc formation formed by three troops from No. 4 Commando Their objectives were to take out German strong-points and to conduct reconnaissance, on the coastline of France. They were unofficially known as the Menday Force named after the commander of Layforce II.

the Chadian-Libyan conflict

Soldiers from 1-30 Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, storm one of the thousands of structures that was cleared during Operation Marne Torch.

Operation Magic Carpet (World War II)

Decisive Royal Lao victory

Operation Maeng Da was a Royal Lao Government military offensive aimed at disrupting the crucial communist supply route of the Second Indochina War, the Ho Chi Minh trail. Launched from a rendezvous point near Vang Tai, Laos, on 2 July 1970 as a three-battalion assault on the major People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) transshipment center at Tchepone, Laos, it ran into stiff resistance from the PAVN 9th Regiment from 11–15 July. An attempt on 16 July to reinforce the Royalist Blue, Black, and Mobile 1 battalions by White Battalion was thwarted by PAVN ground fire and hazardously heavy air traffic over the battlefield. On 17 July, the worst hit Royalist unit, Black Battalion, was airlifted back out of battle. The other two Royalist battalions exfiltrated away from the PAVN troops. In the process, the commander of Mobile 1 was killed; the battalion lost all combat discipline. Both retreating battalions regrouped at the operation's start point. Although ancillary follow-up operations occurred in the vicinity throughout September, the Maeng Da offensive would not resume. However, the Central Intelligence Agency, which had trained and supported the Royalist guerrilla battalions, prepared the Tchepone Operation to follow it.

the Croatian War of Independence

the NATO intervention in Bosnia

Operation Mass Appeal

Operation Matat

Operation Mainbrace

Operation Manacle was the name given to a series of British Commando raids during the Second World War.The raids were conducted by Layforce II and ad hoc formation formed by three troops from No. 4 Commando Their objectives were to take out German strong-points and to conduct reconnaissance, on the coastline of France. They were unofficially known as the Menday Force named after the commander of Layforce II. No.4 Commando participated in Manacle 5 at Qnival and Manacle 8 at Quend Plage operating from Dover. The Manacle, and associated Hardtack raids, were finally abandoned on orders from Combined Operations Headquarters because they encouraged the Germans to reinforce their positions which, in the longer term, could be disadvantageous to the Allies.

Operation Lighthouse

During World War II, Operation Maple was a naval mine laying operation in support of the invasion of northern France (Operation Overlord). Operation Maple was part of Operation Neptune.The objectives were stated as:To impede the movement of light enemy vessels stationed inside the Channel,To impede ingress into the Channel by enemy naval forces situated in the Atlantic and North Sea,To compel enemy naval forces moving toward the NEPTUNE area to follow a course to seaward of the extreme range of enemy shore batteries and shore based fighter cover, in order that allied surfaces forces would be free to intercept their progress,To disrupt enemy shipping generally during the critical period, in order to reduce seaborne movement of enemy reinforcements and supplies toward the battle areaThe mines were laid by ships and aircraft, including HMS Apollo, HMS Plover, 10th, 50th, 51st and 52nd M.L. Flotillas, and the 9th, 13th, 14th, 21st, 22nd and 64th M.T.B. Flotillas. In addition, mines were laid from the air by Halifax, Stirling and Lancaster bombers of numbers 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Groups, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force.With the exception of the field laid in the Straits of Dover, and an area mined by aircraft to the north of the Frisian Islands, all the minefields were offensive in character. The two semi-defensive minefields, referred to above, were intended primarily to counter any movement of enemy heavier forces from the east. In April and May 1944, some of the mines laid were timed to become effective at various dates so as to escape being swept before the invasion of France.During the course of Operation MAPLE, a total of 6,850 mines were laid. Of these, 42% were laid by naval forces in 66 operations and 58% were laid by aircraft in 1,800 sorties. These operations made an effective contribution to the general immunity from surface and U-Boat attack enjoyed by the assault forces. A considerable number of casualties were inflicted on the enemy, and their minesweeping organization was stretched to the limit. Minefields in the vicinity of Ushant and off the Brittany coast had the desired effect of driving U-Boats into open water, where they could be dealt with by allied anti-submarine forces. The special operation in the Kiel Canal resulted in a complete dislocation of the enemy organization at an important moment. The entire operation cost the allied cause, in casualties, only one Motor Torpedo Boat 2 and 19 minelaying aircraft.A linked operation, Bravado laid mines in German waters, in and around the Kiel Canal. The objective was to disrupt German naval movements.

Mortain, Normandy, France

Will a tearful confession call a miracle?

Colonel Wayne W. Grigsby Jr.

* 10–31 TFG soldiers killed, 128 injured

Operation Manta is the code name for the French military intervention in Chad between 1983 and 1984, during the Chadian-Libyan conflict. The operation was prompted by the invasion of Chad by a joint force of Libyan units and Chadian Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) rebels in June 1983. While France was at first reluctant to participate, the Libyan air-bombing of the strategic oasis of Faya-Largeau starting on July 31 led to the assembling in Chad of 3,500 French troops, the biggest French intervention since the end of the colonial era.The French troops, instead of attempting to expel the Libyan forces from Chad, drew a "line in the sand". They concentrated their forces on the 15th parallel, the so-called "Red Line," (later moved up to the 16th parallel) to block the Libyan and GUNT advance towards the N'Djamena, thus saving the Chadian President Hissène Habré. The Libyan and rebel forces also avoided attacking across the Red Line and provoking the French. The resulting impasse led to the de facto partition of Chad, with the Libyans and the GUNT in the north and Habré and the French in central and southern Chad.To end this stalemate, French President François Mitterrand and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi negotiated a mutual withdrawal of their countries' troops from Chad in September 1984. The accord was respected by the French, thus signing the end of Operation Manta, but not by the Libyans, whose forces remained in Chad until 1987 (they did, however, continue to respect the Red Line). The violation of the 15th parallel caused a renewed French intervention in Chad under Operation Epervier and the expulsion of Libyan forces from all Chad except for the Aouzou Strip the following year.

Taliban

the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine

N/A

All three agents captured in Ireland

Operation Malaya (film)

Charles Nelson

Can I get married if I switch seats?

Operation Manacle

Frederick Browning

underground shaft, underground tunnel

October 1944

Jack Alexander

Battle of Mortain

the Soviet-Afghan War

~ 350,000 troops.

Operation Marne Torch refers to two operations launched by Coalition forces in 2007 against al-Qaeda in Iraq in the Arab Jabour area of Babil province.

Operation Marne

Operation Magpie

Supported by

Operation MI

British victory

Operation Longview

TFG

August 1953

Operation Maharat (30 December 1971–16 March 1972) was a military offensive of the Royal Lao Government aimed at Communist insurrectionists. At stake was the sole road junction in northern Laos well in the rear of Royalist troops fighting in Campaign Z. On 30 December 1971, the garrison of a Royal Lao Army artillery battery and two Forces Armées Neutralistes battalions was besieged by an attacking force of Pathet Lao and Patriotic Neutralists. On 21 January 1972, the Royalists were reinforced by 11th Brigade, then overrun. The Communists spread north and south along Route 13 over a 110 km (68 mi) stretch. A Royalist counter-attack on 16 March 1972 would find both Route 13 and the intersection vacated.

Grossmann: 40,000 casualties

John Humphrey

Operation Majestic

Pathet Lao

Operation Marne Torch
Disruption of insurgent supply lines;

to neutralize insurgency efforts in the Euphrates River valley

Bataillon Volontaires 52

Rzhev and Velikie Luki salients, Russian SFSR

Operation Light was a British naval operation in World War II under the command of Rear Admiral Clement Moody. The objective was to carry out aerial strikes on Japanese positions in Sigli, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and aerial reconnaissance over the Nicobar Islands, from 16–23 September 1944. The operation was scheduled to coincide with the Allied landing at Morotai, designated Operation Tradewind, as well as the U.S. 1st Marine Division's landing at Peleliu.

Operation Linebacker II was a US Seventh Air Force and US Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombing campaign, conducted against targets in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) during the final period of US involvement in the Vietnam War. The operation was conducted from 18 to 29 December 1972, leading to several informal names such as "The December Raids" and "The Christmas Bombings".

Operation Madad (Hindi: Operation Aid) was a disaster relief operation undertaken by the Indian Armed Forces in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Madad was focused on rescue and relief efforts on the East Coast of the Indian Mainland. Most efforts were concentrated on Tamil Nadu, which bore the brunt of the tsunami, and in Andhra Pradesh.Operation Sea Waves was simultaneously launched to focus disaster relief operations in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Indian Navy also deployed its vessels and aircraft for tsunami rescue and relief in neighboring Maldives, Sri Lanka and Indonesia through Operation Castor, Operation Rainbow and Operation Gambhir, respectively.

Last Hallelujah Chance
DVD Cover

John W. Vogt, Jr.

Caren Shaffer

The photograph on the slide show showing an angry Rei bothered by Ken. He returns to the past where Rei asked him for coffee milk. He thought this coffee milk was his way of changing his present and making him the man who sits beside Rei.

Murat Karayılan

Operation Medak pocket

Royal Lao Forces occupy Sala Phoun Khoun

ASWJ

Operation Madad (2004)

Operation Maple was a series of World War II operations in Italy in support of the Anzio landings. It comprised separate operations by the British Special Air Service (2 SAS), starting on 7 January 1944. There were mixed results: one (Thistledown) was successful, but the other (Driftwood) was not and its objective had to be destroyed by a subsequent operation (Baobab).

Operation Maslenica was a Croatian Army offensive launched in January 1993 to retake territory in northern Dalmatia and Lika from Krajina Serb forces, with the stated military objective of pushing the Serbs back from approaches to Zadar, Maslenica and Karlobag, allowing a secure land route between Dalmatia and northern Croatia to be opened.

One part of a small wood... had been a battlefield; the trees blasted by shells and mines looked like stakes driven in at random. The earth was criss-crossed by trenches; dugouts bulged like blisters... The deep roar of guns and the furious barks of mortars were deafening.

Operation Linda Nchi

Operation Lightning Strike was a military training exercise of the Lithuanian Army that took place in May 2015.The operation was designed to test troop readiness for a situation similar to the events leading to the current internal unrest in Ukraine and Crimea; with unidentified armed groups attempting to seize control of vital infrastructure, such as airports, government buildings and military installations. The scenario also assumed that such groups would be led or supported by "little green men" - clandestine Russian soldiers.The four-day operation involved primarily about 2,500-3,000 troops of the Lithuanian "Rapid Response Force".The training exercise was followed by a larger NATO exercise Operation Saber Strike in June 2015.

Operation Matriarchy

u/s*

Theatrical release poster

Operation Lightning Strike was a military training exercise of the Lithuanian Army that took place in May 2015.The operation was designed to test troop readiness for a situation similar to the events leading to the current internal unrest in Ukraine and Crimea; with unidentified armed groups attempting to seize control of vital infrastructure, such as airports, government buildings and military installations.

RFA War Nawab

Gerd von Rundstedt

Ahmed Madobe

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
* Military of ISIL
* Dokumacılar

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Leonard Ngondi

Blockade the former Yugoslavia.

Operation Lion Cub

Mandrel Mint Leaf tunnel reentry team

Operation Marion

US claim:

hlist

Insert three German agents into Ireland

Günther von Kluge

the Normandy landings

Operation Mandibles

United Kingdom

Dodge City, Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam

Hussein Arab Isse

Battle for Caen: Operation Martlet

Cancelled

Operation Marigold

Operation Margarethe II

Operation Mavericks

Ken is given a second chance to let Rei say goodbye to her grandfather.

unknown number of infantry

During the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, or Iraq War, Operation Market Sweep was a successful raid into the downtown Fallujah arms market by troops from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division on 13 January 2004.Numerous attempts had been made by coalition forces prior to Market Sweep, but none had yielded desirable results. This operation reportedly captured more than 100 rifles, two heavy machine guns, 6,500 round of ammunition, 18 rockets, 244 grenades, 150 mortars and various explosive devices (to include 17 improvised explosive devices), and more than 60 suspects. The raid was recounted in an Army News Service article:“It was difficult (during previous operations) to approach the market. It has many narrow alleys and corridors,” said Maj. Steve Sears, 3rd Brigade Fire Support Officer. “As we approached, oftentimes (the arms dealers) would receive word that we were coming, lock up their shops and leave.” Nearly an entire battalion of troops approached the market by zigzagging through the streets, ensuring not to reveal the area in which they were going to stop. They then sealed off two key bridges leading to the market, so that no one could enter or flee. Finally, a group of paratroopers, undetected by the black market dealers, entered the market area and conducted precision searches of several different stores. Due to superior intelligence gathering, the paratroopers were aware of several predetermined stores that were selling a variety of illegal weapons and materials. With this intelligence, the troops captured dealers and confiscated many weapons.Operation Market Sweep is also recounted in the 2005 book by journalist Mike Tucker, Among Warriors in Iraq: True Grit, Special Ops, and Raiding in Mosul and Fallujah.

Raskamboni Front

Around twenty agents inserted into Britain and Ireland

Operation Lustre was an action during World War II: the movement of British and other Allied troops (Australian, New Zealand and Polish) from Egypt to Greece in March and April 1941, in response to the failed Italian invasion and the looming threat of German intervention.

Operation Lizard was the name given to a series of operations undertaken in Portuguese Timor by Australian troops in World War Two using Hoehn military folboats to get from the vessel to the island and return.The party were inserted on to the island on 17 July 1942 and evacuated by February 1943.

First Lieutenant I.H.T. Hees

Operation Magneto

Operation Lightning

Maksim Purkayev

Operation Linda Nchi ("Protect the country"; Swahili: Linda Nchi) is the codename for a co-ordinated military operation between the Kenyan military and the Somali military that began on 16 October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict zones of southern Somalia. The soldiers were in pursuit of Al-Shabaab militants that are alleged to have kidnapped several foreign tourists and aid workers inside Kenya. According to the Ethiopian Foreign Minister, the operation represents one of the final stages in the Islamist insurgency of the Somali Civil War.

Bataillon Voluntaires 56

Operation Magic Fire

None reported

Part of the weapons cache captured in Market Sweep

David MacDonald Productions Ltd

Canadian soldiers watch as dust rises from an explosion during Operation Medusa.

Operation Ljeto '95

During World War II, Operation Lost was a reactive seven-man Special Air Service operation inserted into Brittany alongside Operation Dingson on 22–23 June 1944.

The Northern Command Aerial Sensor Platform, also known as Operation Lowrider, is an American surveillance program intended to aid in combat against Mexican drug cartels, in effect since 2011. While the United States has long aided the Mexican government, the program marks a shift in US tactics.Re-purposing techniques and equipment honed in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lowrider employs manned, single engine surveillance planes that track the day-to-day movements of cartel personnel. The program created controversy as it employs private contractors to conduct surveillance, contracts awarded without bidding. The use of manned, single engine surveillance planes is also considered a dangerous risk, since the failure of the one engine could strand a pilot in the Mexican wilderness. The future of the program is in question due to Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto's desire to disengage his country's intelligence agency from that of the United States.

Military casualties are unknown

Operation Mayfield Sweep III

French Union

the Eastern Front of World War II

Hugh Kindersley

the War in Somalia (2009–present)

Arthur Carter

Republic of Afghanistan

Operation Mass Appeal was an operation set up by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was a campaign aimed at planting stories in the media about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. The existence of the operation was exposed in December 2003, although officials denied that the operation was deliberately disseminating misinformation.

Operation MERRIMAC (CIA)

Peter Crane

Phung The Tai

U.S. military raids successful;

Operation Madad (2010)

|22px|border|link=Al-Shabaab (militant group)Al-Shabaab

Bataillon Guerrier 122

Operation Lion was formed to establish an intelligence centre on central Sulawesi (called Celebes at the time). First Lieutenant I.H.T. Hees, 1st Cl. B. Belloni, a telegraphist and Sailor J.L. Brandon comprised the party which left Darwin by the prahu Somoa on 24 June 1942, to land near Wotoe, 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Malili, on Celebes.

Operation Machete Harvest

Edgar Feuchtinger

Bataillon Guerrier 131

Operation Masterdom

Total: 700 militants killed, 61 captured

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Emergency response

Operation Martlet (also known as Operation Dauntless) was part of a series of British attacks to capture the town of Caen and its environs from German forces during the Battle of Normandy of World War II begun by the Allies. It was a preliminary operation undertaken on 25 June 1944 by XXX Corps of the British Second Army, to capture Rauray and the area around Noyers. The attack was to protect the right flank of VIII Corps as it began Operation Epsom, an offensive into the Odon Valley west of Caen, on 26 June. The 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division and the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division were to capture Juvigny-sur-Seulles, Vendes and Rauray, to prevent German counter-attacks against VIII Corps from the area of the Rauray Spur and then extend the attack towards Noyers and Aunay-sur-Odon. It was the first time in Normandy that the 49th (West Riding) Division operated as a division.The attack front was held by the right flank of the Panzer Lehr Division and the left flank of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, with the support of 60–80 88 mm guns of the III Flakkorps. The attack failed to achieve its objectives by the end of 25 June and the 49th (West Riding) Division continued the operation until 1 July, when the division defeated a counter-attack by Kampfgruppe Weidinger of 2nd SS-Panzer Division Das Reich and the 9th SS-Panzer Division Hohenstaufen, which lost c. 35 tanks and other armoured vehicles. The II SS Panzerkorps, had been intended for a counter-offensive west of Caen towards Bayeux but was so depleted by the losses of operations Martlet and Epsom and the danger of another British offensive near Caen, that it was reduced to static defence of the Odon valley.

Abu Ala al-Afri

Operation Luna is a science fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, published in August 1999; it is the sequel to the 1971 fixup novel Operation Chaos by the same author.It centers around a space flight attempt and the efforts of Coyote and several Oriental antagonists to stop it. The IRS (Inquisition for Revenue Securement) and NASA (National Astral Spellcraft Administration) also become involved.The two main characters from Operation Chaos, Steve Matuchek, a werewolf and engineer for Nornwell Scrytronics, and Virginia "Ginny" Matuchek continue in their fight against the forces of evil. Now married and in their 40s, they have three children—Val, the child they rescued from Hell in Operation Chaos when she was 3, now 14–15 years old; Ben, 10 years old; and Chryssa, 4 years old.A few characters from Operation Chaos also reappear, such as Barney Sturlason, Steve's boss, and Bob Shining Knife, a Native American F.B.I. agent, though they have small roles in this novel.

Ken plans to have a "coming from behind victory" over Rei, but as he hears Rei's opinion about regrets, Ken decided not to change the past but to act in the present. So Ken returns to just before he has to give a speech at the wedding banquet.

Operation Lolaus

Viet Minh

Operation Lilliput (World War II) was the name given to a convoy operation directed by G.H.Q. Operations Instructions Number 21 of 20 October 1942 for transportation of troops, weapons, and supplies in a regular transport service between Milne Bay and Oro Bay, New Guinea between 18 December 1942 and June 1943 in order "to cover reinforcement, supply, and development of the Buna-Gona area upon its anticipated capture" by the Australian 7th Division and the United States Army's 32d Division. Within six months, the convoys, escorted by Royal Australian Navy corvettes and largely composed of Dutch KPM merchant ships, had delivered 60,000 tons of supplies and 3,802 troops from Milne Bay to Oro Bay. Corvettes provided the majority of the escort force. Losses during Imperial Japanese air attacks amounted to two merchant ships, 's Jacob and Van Heemskerk, sunk and two badly damaged while several of the corvettes also sustained damage and casualties.

What can I bet at the last moment?

Boris Gromov

* 3 Ras Kamboni militants killed, 3 injured

Operation Manta is the code name for the French military intervention in Chad between 1983 and 1984, during the Chadian-Libyan conflict. The operation was prompted by the invasion of Chad by a joint force of Libyan units and Chadian Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) rebels in June 1983.

Wilhelm Richter

Mobile 1

Soviet operational failure

Operation Lion Hunt

From what do I graduate on my last day as a teen?

Operation MAR LEWE

causus belli

17 EOKA members were captured, and the EOKA group was broken and no longer posed a threat.

Wilhelm Bittrich

October 1945 – September 1946

Le Van Tri

Ibrahim al-Afghani

Ken returns to a fireworks festival before Tada confesses his feelings to Rei.

Operation Lost

Evelyn Barker

Operation Maharat (30 December 1971–16 March 1972) was a military offensive of the Royal Lao Government aimed at Communist insurrectionists. At stake was the sole road junction in northern Laos well in the rear of Royalist troops fighting in Campaign Z. On 30 December 1971, the garrison of a Royal Lao Army artillery battery and two Forces Armées Neutralistes battalions was besieged by an attacking force of Pathet Lao and Patriotic Neutralists.

When will love and fireworks scatter?

Operation Liliput

Black Battalion = heavy

Operation Malheur II

Operation Lune

executive

During World War II, Operation Maple was a naval mine laying operation in support of the invasion of northern France (Operation Overlord).

Route 13 and Route 7 junction at Sala Phoun Khoun, Laos

Counter-terrorist action

For the 1937 test launches of the A3 rockets in Germany, see Operation Lighthouse (1937).Operation Lighthouse (OPL) was an HIV/AIDS prevention programme implemented by Population Services International's India wing during January 2001 to December 2005 which deployed a set of integrated communication, advocacy and service provision strategies to decrease the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among vulnerable groups, by focusing activities in 12 major port communities in India. Funded by the U.S.

Operation Match was the first computer dating service in the United States, begun in 1965. The predecessor of this was created in London and was called as St. James Computer Dating Service (later to become Com-Pat) started by Joan Ball in 1964. Users filled out a paper questionnaire which they mailed in with a $3 fee. The questionnaire was geared to young college students seeking a date, not a marriage partner.

August, 1999