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This is a list of missions, operations, and projects. Missions in support of other missions are not listed independently.
Operations
- Agreement (1942) — British landing in North Africa
- Alphabet (1940) evacuation of British troops from Norway
- Ambassador (1940) — British commando raid on Guernsey
- Amherst (1945) — British airborne raid in the Netherlands
- Anvil (1944) — invasion of Southern France. Name later changed to Dragoon
- Anthropoid (1942) British assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
- Archery (1941) — British commando raid on Maaloy, Norway
- Artur ("Arthur") (1941) — German plan to support IRA activities
- Attila (1940) — German seizure and occupation of Vichy France
- Avalanche (1943) — Allied landings near Salerno, Italy
- Barbarossa (1941) — German invasion of the Soviet Union
- Basalt (1942) — British raid on Sark
- Baytown — Allied landings in Calabria, Italy
- Bertram — part of the Second Battle of El Alamein
- Begonia (1943) — British POW rescue in Italy
- Birke ("Birch") (1944) — German plan to withdraw from northern Finland prior to the Lapland War
- Birkhahn ("Black Cock") (1945) — German withdrawal from Norway
- Biting (1942) — Commando raid on radar site in France
- Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) — German offensive in the southern USSR
- Blücher (1942) — German campaign in the Caucasus
- Bodenplatte ("Baseplate") (1945) — German aerial attack on 27 Allied airbases
- Büffel (1940) — German operation to relieve troops in Narvik, Norway.
- Burza ("Plan Burza", "Operation Tempest") (1944) — a series of local uprisings prepared by the Polish Home Army
- Candytuft (1943) — British raid on the Italian east coast
- Canuck (1945) — SAS operation near Turin
- Cerberus (1942) — escape of German capital ships from Brest to home ports in Germany
- Chariot (1942) — British raid on Saint Nazaire
- Chastise (1943) — attack on German dams
- Clawhammer (1942) — planned commando raid on a radar site in France
- Claymore (1941) — British raid on Norwegian islands
- Cobra (1944) — American breakout from Normandy
- Dunhill (1944) — SAS operations in Normandy to support Cobra
- Cold Comfort (1945) — British raid on rail lines in Italy
- Colossus (1941) — airborne raid against rail targets in Italy
- Compass (1940) — British counteroffensive in North Africa
- Cooney — French commando raid
- Crusader (1941) — British attempt to relieve Tobruk
- Deadlight (1945) — postwar scuttling of U-boats
- Defoe (1944) — SAS patrols in Normandy
- Donnerschlag ("Thunderclap") (1942) — planned breakout of the German 6th Army from Stalingrad
- Downfall (1945) — planned invasion of Japan
- Olympic (planned for 1945, not executed) — first of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
- Coronet (planned for 1945, not executed) — second of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
- Dragoon (1944) — Allied landing in southern France
- Driftwood (1944) — failed raid on rail targets north of Rome
- Drumbeat (1942) — German U-boat attack on east coast shipping of the United States
- Dynamo (1940) — British evacuation from Dunkirk
- Edelweiss (1942) — proposed German capture of the oil fields of Baku
- Eisenhammer (1943) — plan to destroy Soviet power generators in Moscow and Gorky (not the same as Iron Hammer)
- Epsom (1944) — British assault west of Caen, Normandy
- Fall Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) — German offensive in the southern USSR
- Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") (1940) — German offensive against western Europe
- Fall Grün ("Case Green") (1938) — the German invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Fall Rot ("Case Red") (1935) — German defense plan in case of an incursion by France when Czechoslovakia is invaded
- Fall Weiss ("Case White") (1939) — German invasion of Poland
- Fall Weiss ("Case White") (1942) — German counter-partisan operation in Croatia
- Felix (1940–41) — planned German invasion of Gibraltar
- Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") (1942) — planned German capture of Leningrad
- Fischereiher ("Heron") (1942) — German offensive to capture Stalingrad
- Fortitude (1944) — Allied deception in Europe
- Foxley (year?) — a plan to kill Adolf Hitler that was never carried out
- Frankton (1942) — commando raid on shipping port in France
- Frantic (1943) — The use of Soviet airfields by western Allied bombers.
- Frühlingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") (1945) — German counterattack against Russian forces in Hungary
- Gaff (1944) — attempt to kill Erwin Rommel
- Gauntlet (1941) — raid on Spitzbergen
- Goodwood (1944) — British breakout attempt from Normandy
- Greif ("Grab") (1944) — German troops disguised as Allied soldiers during Battle of the Bulge
- Grenade (1945) — US Ninth Army crossing of the Roer (see also Veritable)
- Grün [1] ("Green") (1938) — the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Grün [2] ("Green") (1940) — decoy invasion of Ireland in conjunction with Seelöwe
- Gunnerside (1943) — raid on a Norwegian heavy water plant
- Project Habbakuk (1943) — project to construct an aircraft carrier out of ice
- Operation Herbstnebel
- Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") (1940) — decoy invasion of Scotland
- Herkules (1942) — planned Axis airborne invasion of Malta
- Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine") (1944) — German counteroffensive in the Ardennes (in Belgium, Luxembourg and France); the Battle of the Bulge
- Husky (1943) — Allied invasion of Sicily
- Iceberg (1945) — US invasion of Okinawa
- Ikarus (1940) — planned German invasion of Iceland
- Juno (1940) — German naval operation to disturb allied supplies to Norway.
- Lachsfang (1942) — Proposed combined German and Finnish attack against against Kandalaksha and Belomorsk.
- Lightfoot (1942) — first attack by the British at El Alamein
- Lost (1944) — British raid on Brittany
- Loyton (1944) — large SAS patrol in French mountains
- Marita (1941) — German invasion of Greece
- Margarethe (1944) — German operation to keep Hungary from defecting
- Manhattan Project (1941–1945) — American program to build an atomic bomb
- Market Garden (1944) — Allied airborne attempt to cross the lower Rhine
- Matador (1941) — Planned British pre-emptive move into Siam from Malaya
- Merkur ("Mercury") (1941) — German invasion of Crete
- Mondscheinsonate ("Moonlight Sonata") (1940) — German aerial raid on Coventry
- Morgenrote ("Dawn") (1944) — German counterattack against Anzio landings
- Narcissus (1943) — British commando raid
- Nelson (1944) — cancelled SAS patrol in France
- Newton (1944) — SAS raid in France
- Nordlicht [1] ("Northern Lights") (1942) — planned German assault on Leningrad
- Nordlicht [2] ("Northern Lights") (1944) — German withdrawal from the Kola Peninsula into Norway
- Nordwind ("North Wind") (1945) — German offensive in the Alsace
- Overlord (1944) — Allied landings in Normandy
- Pegasus (1944) — Allied rescue of troops after failure of Market Garden
- Paperclip (1945) — part-military, part-scientific operation to scoop up Nazi scientists, engineers, experiments, prototypes, data, etc., after WWII
- Paukenschlag ("Beat of the Kettle Drum") (1942) — German U-boat offensive on the east coast of the United States
- Pedestal Allied convoy to Malta.
- Plunder (1945) — British crossing of the Rhine
- Pluto (1944) — construction of undersea oil pipelines between England and France
- Reinhard (1943) — German reprisals for Anthropoid
- Renntier ("Reindeer") (1941) — German occupation of Finnish Petsamo
- Rheinübung ("Exercise Rhine") (1941) — German attacks on Allied shipping conducted by Bismarck and Prinz Eugen
- Rösselsprung [1] ("Knights Move") (1942) — German naval campaign to sink Arctic convoys
- Rösselsprung [2] ("Knights Move") (1944) — German attempt to capture Josip Broz Tito
- Roundup (1942) — planned Allied landings in France
- Seelöwe ("Sea Lion") (1940) — planned German invasion of Britain
- Adler ("Eagle") — German air offensive
- Grün [2] ("Green") (1940) — decoy invasion of Ireland in conjunction with Seelöwe
- Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") — decoy invasion of Scotland in conjunction with Seelöwe.
- Shingle (1944) — Allied landings at Anzio
- Baobab — commando raid in support of Shingle
- Chettyford — deception plan to support Shingle
- Pomegranate (1944) — Raid in support of Shingle
- Sledgehammer (1942) — planned Allied landings in France
- Sonneblume — movement of German troops to north Africa as a result of the British Compass
- Sonnenwende ("Winter Solstice") (1945) — German offensive to relieve Pomerania from Russian forces and halt advance on Berlin
- Stösser (1944) — Airborne drop in support of the Battle of the Bulge
- Supercharge (1942) — second attack by British at El Alamein
- Tabarin (1943) — British Antarctic expedition
- Taifun ("Typhoon") (1941) — German autumn offensive to capture Moscow
- Tanne Ost (1944 ) — failed German attempt to capture Suursaari from Finland
- Tanne West (1944) — planned German attempt to capture the Åland Islands from Finland
- Tannenbaum — The planned German invasion of Switzerland.
- Theseus (1942) — German offensive to drive Allies out of Cyrenaica and Egypt
- Ten-Go (1945) Japanese naval sortie.
- Tiger (1944) — Allied training prior D-Day, near Slapton, England
- Tombola (1945) — SAS raid in Italy
- Torch (1942) — Allied landings in North Africa
- Totalize (1944) — Allied effort to trap German armor in Normandy
- Veritable (1945) — Canadian First Army crossing of the Roer (see also Grenade)
- Watchtower (1942) — U.S. invasion of Guadalcanal
- Weserübung ("Weser Exercise") (1940) — German invasion of Denmark and Norway
- Wintergewitter ("Winter Storm") (1942) — German attempt to relieve encircled 6th Army at Stalingrad
- Zitadelle ("Citadel") (1943) — German counteroffensive at Kursk
- Zitronella (1943) — German raid against a Norwegian/British station on Svalbard.
- Zombie (1941) — airborne raid against rail targets in Italy
Cold War Era
Post-Cold War
Afghanistan
Africa
Arab/Israeli Conflict
- Peace for Galilee — Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Rainbow — Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip in 2004.
- Shevet Ahhim — 2005 Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip.
Balkans
- Echo — Canada sending air forces to Aviano, Italy to enforce a no-fly zone over Balkan region (UNSFOR and UNKFOR)
- Essential Harvest (2001) — month-long NATO mission of disarming ethnic Albanians in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- Forage — Canadian contribution to NATO's Essential Harvest
- Bljesak ("Flash") (1995) — Croatian offensive against western Slavonian parts of Krajina
- Joint Force (1998) — NATO operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Kinetic — Canada's contribution to NATO's mission KFOR to secure Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to provide humanitarian needs to displaced persons
- Megaphone — Canada's return of equipment used in Kosovo
- Oluja ("Storm") (1995) — Croatian offensive against Krajina.
- Potkova ("Horseshoe") (1999) — Yugoslav army offensive against the KLA
- Quadrant — Canada's mission in Kosovo
- Harmony — Canada's contribution to the United Nation Protection Force (UNPROFOR), which was created in February 1992 to ensure the protection and demilitarization of three UN Protected Areas in Croatia
- Rosario — Argentine invasion
- Corporate — British liberation
- Black Buck — British long-range bombing raid
- Canbelow — British antiaircraft naval ambush
- Keyhole — British commando raid
- Purple Warrior — British training exercise incorporating lessons from the Falklands War
- Sutton — British amphibious landings
Haiti
- Constable (1997) — Canada's contribution to the United Nations Mission in Haiti
Humanitarian Operations
Iraq
First Invasion of Iraq
- Desert Shield (1990) — American buildup prior to Gulf War
- Granby — British codename for operations during Gulf War
- Desert Storm (1991) — Gulf War
- Desert Saber — Gulf War ground campaign
- Determination (early 1998) — Canadian deployment in the Persian Gulf to force Iraq to comply with United Nations inspection agreements
- Northern Watch (1990s) — northern No-Fly Zone over Iraq
- Record (1991) — Canadian mission to secure Iraqi-Kuwaiti border
- Southern Watch (1990s) — southern No-Fly Zone over Iraq
Second Invasion of Iraq
- Iraqi Freedom (2003-04) — U.S. invasion/occupation of Iraq
- Abilene — (2003)
- All American Tiger — (2003)
- Aloha — (2004) American anti-insurgent sweep in Kirkuk.
- Baton Rouge — (2004)
- Bayonet Lightning — (2003)
- Boothill — (2003)
- Black Typhoon — (2004)
- Blue Tiger — (2004)
- Bulldog — (2004)
- Bulldog Mammoth — (2003) American search of an apartment complex.
- Cajun Mousetrap II — (2004)
- Cajun Mousetrap III — (2004)
- Centaur Rodeo — (2004)
- Centaur Strike II — (2004)
- Centaur Strike III — (2004)
- Chamberlain — (2003) Border security operation.
- Choke Hold — (2003)
- Clean Sweep — (2004)
- Clear Area — (2003)
- Cobra Sweep — (2004)
- Danger Fortitude — (2004)
- Desert Scorpion (1998) — American contingency deployment.
- Desert Scorpion (2003) — American raid to capture Ba'athists. (included a number of lesser operations such as Scorpion Sting, Spartan Scorpion and Rifles Scorpion.)
- Devil Clinch — (2004)
- Devil Siphon — (2003)
- Devil Thrust — (2004)
- Disarm — (2004)
- Dragon Victory — (2004)
- Duke Fortitude — (2004)
- Eagle Curtain — (2003)
- Eagle Liberty 3 — (2004)
- Final Cut — (2004)
- Gimlet Victory — (2004)
- Giulani — (2004)
- Grizzly Forced Entry — (2004)
- Haifa Street — (2004)
- Hurricane — (2004)
- Hurricane II — (2004)
- Industrial Sweep — (2003) Operation in Samarra.
- Iron Bullet — (2003)
- Iron Fist II — (2004)
- Iron Fury — (2004)
- Iron Fury II — (2004)
- Iron Grip — (2003)
- Iron Hammer — U.S. forces in Iraq "ferreting out" the opposition.
- Iron Justice — (2003)
- Iron Promise — (2004)
- Iron Resolve — (2004)
- Iron Saber — (2004)
- Ivy Blizzard — counter insurgency sweep by US forces
- Arrowhead Blizzard — (2003)
- Ivy Cyclone — (2003)
- Ivy Cyclone II — American operation near Tikrit.
- Ivy Lightning — (2003)
- Ivy Needle — (2003)
- Ivy Serpent — (2003)
- Lancer Fury — (2004)
- Lancer Lightning — (2004)
- Longhorn — (2004)
- Longstreet — (2003)
- Mandarin Squeeze — (2004)
- Market Sweep — (2004)
- Mayfield III — (2004)
- Mutual Security — (2004)
- O.K. Coral — (2003)
- Outlaw Destroyer — (2004)
- Panther Squeeze — (2003)
- Peninsula Strike (2003) — American raid to capture Ba'athists.
- Phantom Fury (2004) — Joint American/Iraqi assault on Fallujah.
- Phantom Linebacker — Security Operations along the Syrian border.
- Planet X (2003) — American raid to capture Ba'athists.
- Plymouth Rock (2004) Sweep south of Baghdad.
- Quarterhorse Rides — (2004)
- Operation Rapier Thrust — (2004)
- Operation Red Dawn (2003) — American capture of Saddam Hussein.
- Resolute Sword — (2004)
- Rifles Fury — (2003)
- Rifles Blitz — border security operations in Iraq.
- Rifles Sweep — (2003)
- Ripper Sweep — (2004)
- Rocketman — (2004)
- Rocketman III — (2004)
- Rock Slide — (2004)
- Saber Turner II — (2004)
- Operation Salm — (2003)
- Operation Saloon — (2004)
- Shillelagh — (2004)
- Showdown — (2004)
- Sidewinder (2003) —
- Slim Shady — (2004)
- Silverado — (2003)
- Soda Mountain — (2003)
- Spring Cleanup — (2004)
- Stiker Hurricane — (2004)
- Striker Tornado — (2004)
- Suicide Kings — (2004)
- Sweeny — (2003) Anti-smuggling operation by the Marines.
- Telic — codename for British operations
- Tiger Clean Sweep — (2003)
- Tiger Fury — (2004)
- Tomahawk — (2004)
- Tombstone Piledriver — (2004)
- Trailblazer — (2004)
- True Grit — (2004)
- Operation Tyr — (2003)
- Vigilant Resolve (2004) — First American attempt to capture Fallujah.
- Warhorse Whirlwind — (2003)
- Warrior — (2004)
- Warrior Resolve — (2004)
- Wolfpack Crunch — (2004)
- Wolverine — (2004)
- Yellow Stone — (2004)
Other/Unknown
- Power Geyser — MIlitary security support to the 2005 Presidential inauguration.
- Chaperon — Canada's contribution to the United Nations of one military observer (UNMO)
- Flavius (1988) — SAS action against the IRA in Gibraltar
- Support (Sept. 11-14, 2001) — Canadian Forces operations after terrorist September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
- Unified Spirite — large NATO exercise held every two years to train the armed forces of member nations in joint and combined operations.
Other/Unknown
- Artisan — Canadian Forces contribution to the Rinas Airfield Rehabilitation Project in Tirana, Albania
- Eclipse — deployment of Canadian soldiers to east Africa in support of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
- Fusion — Canada's combined contribution to Allied Harmony and Concordia
- Prudence — Canada's participation in the Mission des Nations Unies dans la République Centrafricaine (MINURCA)
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