military operation

A military operation is a coordinated and planned set of actions conducted by armed forces to achieve specific strategic, operational, or tactical objectives.

Aliases (50)

• military engagement ×184
• military conflict ×139
• military offensive ×76
• military siege ×16
• German military operation ×12
• United States military operation ×12
• military coup ×11
• naval operation ×11
• British military operation ×7
• naval campaign ×7
• Allied military operation ×6
• amphibious operation ×6
• covert operation ×6
• American Civil War campaign ×5
• military encirclement ×5
• military expedition ×5
• military raid ×4
• planned military operation ×4
• American Revolutionary War campaign ×3
• European Union military operation ×3
• air defense campaign ×3
• airborne operation ×3
• false flag operation ×3
• humanitarian operation ×3
• Assyrian military campaign ×2
• Dutch military operation ×2
• Home Army operation ×2
• Imperial Japanese Navy operation ×2
• United States military campaign ×2
• Wehrmacht operation ×2
• counter-terrorism operation ×2
• counterterrorism operation ×2
• invasion plan ×2
• military deception operation ×2
• military incident ×2
• military operation plan ×2
• multinational military operation ×2
• naval incident ×2
• naval military operation ×2
• paramilitary operation ×2
• planned invasion ×2
• special operations mission ×2
• Allied logistics operation ×1
• Allied military offensive ×1
• Australian Defence Force operation ×1
• Civil War campaign ×1
• Dutch military offensive ×1
• French military expedition ×1
• French military intervention ×1
• German naval operation ×1

Instances (showing first 500 of 803)

• Battle of Hamelin (Seven Years' War) ("military engagement")
• Battle of Zierenberg ("military engagement")
• Battle of Emsdorf ("military engagement")
• Battle of Balikpapan (1942) ("amphibious operation")
• Battle of Taipale ("military engagement")
• Iraqi no-fly zone enforcement
• Second Italo-Ethiopian War ("military conflict")
• Kolchak offensive in Siberia ("military offensive")
• Suez Crisis ("military conflict")
• Siege of Leningrad ("military blockade")
• Operation Compass
• Doolittle Raid
• Operation Citadel ("military offensive")
• Operation Goodwood
• Battle of Summa ("military engagement")
• Russo-Japanese War ("military conflict")
• Monmouth campaign ("American Revolutionary War campaign")
• Battle of Guangzhou ("military offensive")
• Battle of Blenheim ("military conflict")
• Operation Watchtower
• Gallipoli Campaign air operations ("military air campaign")
• Middle East combat operations
• Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel ("Assyrian military campaign")
• First Boer War ("military conflict")
• Operation Blue
• Operation Serval
• Battle of Ramillies ("military conflict")
• Operation Typhoon ("military offensive")
• Continuation War ("military conflict")
• Battle of Changde ("military conflict")
• Spanish–American War ("military conflict")
• Battle of Jarama ("military engagement")
• Battle of Quebec (1759) ("military engagement")
• Allied strategic bombing of Japan
• Battle of Baltimore ("military conflict")
• Operation Barkhane
• Battle of Oudenarde ("military engagement")
• Battle of Guadalajara ("military engagement")
• Siege of Arcot ("military siege")
• 25 April Revolution ("military coup")
• Operation Crossbow
• Operation Hailstone
• Battle of the Ebro ("military engagement")
• Battle of Pusan Perimeter ("military engagement")
• Operation Avalanche
• Battle of Malplaquet ("military engagement")
• Siege of Tobruk ("military siege")
• Operation Ichi-Go ("military offensive")
• Operation Meetinghouse
• Inchon Landing
• Battle of the Downs ("military conflict")
• Battle of Chandannagar ("military engagement")
• Battle of Rossbach ("military engagement")
• Operation Ten-Go ("naval military operation")
• Operation Olympic ("planned military operation")
• Siege of Yorktown ("military conflict")
• Blockade of the Pequot along the Thames River
• Fall Weiss
• Battle of Pork Chop Hill ("military engagement")
• Battle of Leuthen ("military engagement")
• Altmark Incident ("naval incident")
• Operation Overlord
• The Hump airlift over the Himalayas ("Allied logistics operation")
• Battle of Bladensburg ("military engagement")
• Operation Telic
• Battle of Minden ("military engagement")
• Battle of Kunersdorf ("military engagement")
• Siege of Prague (1757)
• Battle of the Points ("military conflict")
• remilitarization of the Rhineland
• Operation Cottage
• Operation Cobra ("military offensive")
• Battle of the Pockets ("military engagement")
• Balkan Wars ("military conflict")
• Operation Lüttich
• Lapland War ("military conflict")
• Prompt Global Strike ("military initiative")
• Battle of Marengo ("military engagement")
• Polish–Soviet War ("military conflict")
• atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Battle of Gallipoli ("amphibious operation")
• Operation Nordwind
• Battle of Heartbreak Ridge ("military conflict")
• Battle of Hastings ("military conflict")
• Battle of Berlin ("military offensive")
• Battle of the Atlantic ("naval campaign")
• Berlin Airlift
• Siege of Delhi ("military engagement")
• Operation Spring Awakening ("military offensive")
• Battle of Sedan (1940) ("military engagement")
• Operation Berlin ("German naval operation")
• Battle of Naseby ("military engagement")
• Boer Wars ("military conflict")
• Long Turkish War ("military conflict")
• Battle of Nanjing ("military engagement")
• Operation Vittles
• Marco Polo Bridge Incident ("military conflict")
• Battle of Shanghai (1937) ("military conflict")
• Russo-Turkish Wars ("military conflict")
• Chinese Civil War (early phase) ("military conflict")
• Battle of Wisconsin Heights ("military engagement")
• Siege of Barcelona (1713–1714) ("military engagement")
• Crossing of the Rhine
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu ("military engagement")
• Battle of Dettingen ("military engagement")
• Operation Little Saturn ("military offensive")
• Unternehmen Barbarossa
• Battle of Dunbar (1650) ("military engagement")
• siege of Grave (1674) in the Franco-Dutch War
• siege of Grave (1794) in the French Revolutionary Wars
• Operation Koltso
• Battle of Valmy ("military engagement")
• Fall Blau ("military offensive")
• Operation Desert Shield
• Tet Offensive ("military offensive")
• Battle of Jemappes ("military engagement")
• Gulf War ("United States military operation")
• Gothic Line offensive ("military offensive")
• Battle of Brandywine ("military engagement")
• Luftbrücke ("humanitarian operation")
• United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali ("UN field operation")
• Peruvian War of Independence ("military conflict")
• Battle of Wuhan ("military conflict")
• Italian invasion of France ("military offensive")
• Battle of Rivoli ("military engagement")
• Ecuadorian War of Independence ("military conflict")
• Operation Garden
• Battle of Hohenlinden ("military engagement")
• Operation Gothic Serpent
• Battle of Zenta ("military conflict")
• Operation Baytown
• Operation Slapstick
• Battle of the Niemen River ("military engagement")
• Battle of the Pyramids ("military engagement")
• Battle of Abukir (1799) ("military conflict")
• Carnation Revolution ("military coup")
• Operation Granby
• Battle of Zadwórze ("military engagement")
• Mediterranean U-boat campaign ("naval campaign")
• Operation Herrick
• Battle of Petrovaradin ("military conflict")
• Operation Banner
• Battle of Belgrade (1717) ("military engagement")
• Easter Offensive ("military offensive")
• Battle of Baghdad (2003) ("military engagement")
• Dieppe Raid
• Sherman’s March to the Sea ("Union military operation")
• Operation Z
• East Pomeranian Offensive ("military offensive")
• Siege of Vicksburg ("military siege")
• Operation MI
• Gulf of Tonkin incident ("naval incident")
• First Battle of Fallujah
• Siege of Petersburg ("military siege")
• Operation Anadyr
• Battle of Kock (1939) ("military engagement")
• Operation Iceberg
• Appomattox Campaign ("American Civil War campaign")
• Operation Detachment
• Bay of Pigs Invasion ("covert operation")
• Opium Wars ("military conflict")
• Siege of Leiden ("military conflict")
• Battle of San Juan Hill ("military engagement")
• Siege of Santiago ("military siege")
• Urgent Fury
• Battle of Nieuwpoort ("military engagement")
• Siege of Breda ("military engagement")
• Battle of Badr ("military conflict")
• Operation Anthropoid
• Operation Neptune Spear
• Battle of Gwalior ("military engagement")
• Battle of Uhud ("military conflict")
• Battle of New Orleans ("military conflict")
• Battle of the Trench ("military conflict")
• Battle of Stillman’s Run ("military engagement")
• D-Day
• Ruhr Pocket ("military encirclement")
• Battle of Otumba ("military engagement")
• Blitz
• atomic bombing of Nagasaki ("United States military operation")
• Operation Barbarossa
• Operation Torch
• Operation Bagration ("military offensive")
• Operation Gomorrah
• Yom Kippur War ("military conflict")
• Battle of Surabaya ("military conflict")
• First Dutch Police Action ("military offensive")
• Operation Jedburgh ("special operations mission")
• Battle of Ia Drang ("military engagement")
• Second Dutch Police Action ("military offensive")
• Yogyakarta offensive ("military offensive")
• Indian Ocean raid ("naval operation")
• Attack on Swansea ("military conflict")
• Battle of Edgehill ("military conflict")
• East Prussian Offensive ("military offensive")
• Operation Braunschweig
• Attack on Deerfield ("military raid")
• Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive ("military offensive")
• Battle of Raate Road ("military engagement")
• Bombardment of Odessa ("military engagement")
• Case Blue
• Baltic campaign ("naval campaign")
• Operation Rolling Thunder ("United States military operation")
• Siege of Boston ("military siege")
• Siege of Calcutta ("military siege")
• Operation Product ("military offensive")
• Battle of the Ruhr
• Scanian War ("military conflict")
• Siege of Acre ("military engagement")
• Battle of Lund ("military engagement")
• Operation Phantom Fury
• Big Week
• Mayaguez incident ("military conflict")
• Battle of Buxar ("military conflict")
• Battle of Halmstad ("military engagement")
• Operation Linebacker
• Battle of Balaclava ("military engagement")
• Battle of Alma ("military engagement")
• Battle of Landskrona ("military engagement")
• Operation Inherent Resolve
• Battle of Solebay ("military engagement")
• Operation al-Fajr
• Husky
• Battle of the Great Swamp ("military conflict")
• Battle of Hamburg
• Battle of Inkerman ("military engagement")
• Soviet offensive of February 1940 ("military offensive")
• Invasion of Rabaul
• 1982 Lebanon War ("military conflict")
• Operation Dynamo ("military evacuation operation")
• Battle of the Tenaru ("military engagement")
• siege of Maastricht (1673)
• Battle for Rome ("military offensive")
• Operation Kraai
• Operation Freedom’s Sentinel
• Resolute Support Mission ("military advisory mission")
• Unternehmen Zitadelle ("military offensive")
• Battle of Tora Bora ("military offensive")
• Battle of Camden ("military conflict")
• Anglo-Nepalese War ("military conflict")
• Battle of Talavera ("military engagement")
• Battle of Salamanca ("military engagement")
• Operation Kutuzov ("military offensive")
• Borneo Confrontation ("military conflict")
• Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) ("military siege")
• Gallic Wars ("military conflict")
• Granma expedition ("military expedition")
• Iraq training mission ("international military operation")
• Battle of Vitoria ("military engagement")
• Visigothic–Roman conflicts ("military conflict")
• Operation Rumyantsev
• Operation Wilfred ("naval operation")
• Battle of Sedgemoor ("military conflict")
• Operation Whirlwind
• Battle of Quatre Bras ("military engagement")
• Soviet Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation ("military offensive")
• Battle of Chelsea Creek ("military engagement")
• Battle of Alexandria (31 BC campaigns) ("military engagement")
• Defense against the Combined Bomber Offensive ("air defense campaign")
• Operation Mondscheinsonate
• Operation Okra
• Battle of Cannae ("military engagement")
• Case Yellow
• Przewrót majowy ("military coup")
• Nomonhan Incident ("military conflict")
• Napoleon's Egyptian campaign ("French military expedition")
• Siege of Khartoum ("military engagement")
• Caucasian War ("military conflict")
• War of Liberation ("military conflict")
• Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive ("military offensive")
• Middle Don offensive ("military offensive")
• German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue ("military offensive")
• EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina ("European Union military operation")
• EUNAVFOR Atalanta ("European Union military operation")
• Second Battle of Fallujah ("military offensive")
• EUNAVFOR MED IRINI ("European Union military operation")
• Central Plains War ("military conflict")
• Japanese coup d’état in French Indochina ("military coup")
• 1969 Libyan coup d'état ("military coup")
• Battle of San Jacinto ("military conflict")
• Borneo campaign (1945) ("amphibious operation")
• Operation Biting (Bruneval Raid support lineage)
• Operation Power Pack ("United States military operation")
• Sino–Soviet border conflict ("military conflict")
• Siege of St. Augustine (1702) ("military siege")
• Siege of Segusio ("military engagement")
• Battle of Isandlwana (near its borders, involving colonial forces) ("military engagement")
• Allied bombing of Germany
• Siege of Port Royal (1710) ("military conflict")
• Battle of Benghazi ("military engagement")
• War of 1812 ("military conflict")
• Operation Ladbroke
• Operation Enduring Freedom
• Battle of Bloody Creek (1711) ("military engagement")
• Baltic Air Policing ("collective air defense operation")
• Sinking of ARA General Belgrano ("military incident")
• Black Buck raids
• Valley Campaign of 1862 ("American Civil War campaign")
• Operation Himmler ("false flag operation")
• Siege of Ladysmith ("military engagement")
• Operation Promote Liberty
• Battle of Magersfontein ("military engagement")
• Entebbe
• Unternehmen Seelöwe ("planned military operation")
• Battle of Suomussalmi ("military engagement")
• Battle of Bunker Hill ("military conflict")
• Battle of Sirte (2011) ("military engagement")
• Operation Millennium
• Battle of Tours ("military conflict")
• Battle of Wavre ("military engagement")
• Battle of Stalingrad ("military conflict")
• Battle of the Falaise Pocket ("military engagement")
• Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive ("military offensive")
• Battle of Tweebosch ("military engagement")
• Hundred Days Offensive ("military offensive")
• Winter War ("military conflict")
• Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ("military conflict")
• Downfall
• Operation Market Garden
• Siege of Constantinople 1422 ("military conflict")
• North Caucasus offensive operations ("military offensive")
• Battle of Talas ("military conflict")
• Battles of Lexington and Concord ("military engagement")
• British–Native American wars ("military conflict")
• Operation Urgent Fury
• Global War on Terrorism ("U.S.-led international campaign")
• Battle of Carnuntum ("military conflict")
• Siege of Brookfield ("military conflict")
• Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation ("military offensive")
• Battle of Berlin (air campaign)
• Battle of Tripoli ("military offensive")
• Tecumseh's War ("military conflict")
• Battle of Tripoli (2019–2020) ("military offensive")
• Battle of Santa Clara ("military engagement")
• Battle of Plassey ("military conflict")
• Siege of Warsaw (1939)
• Siege of Havana (1762)
• First Seminole War ("United States military campaign")
• Ploiești raid
• Battle of Derna ("military engagement")
• Battle of Diamond Hill ("military engagement")
• Arab–Israeli conflict ("military conflict")
• Battle of Sahagún ("military engagement")
• Battle of the Don Bend ("military engagement")
• South Sakhalin Offensive Operation ("military offensive")
• Operation Coronet ("planned military operation")
• Operation Ring
• Battle of Mount Tumbledown ("military engagement")
• Operation Battleaxe
• Operation Moses ("covert operation")
• Battle of Queenston Heights ("military engagement")
• Battle of Monte de las Cruces ("military engagement")
• Iranian Embassy siege ("counter-terrorism operation")
• Operation Solomon
• Welsh Wars ("military conflict")
• Operation Forager
• Siege of Cuautla ("military siege")
• Operation Soapsuds
• Battle of Calderón Bridge ("military engagement")
• Battle of Pungdo ("military engagement")
• Sieges of Fredriksten fortress ("military campaign series")
• Battle of Poltava ("military conflict")
• Battle of Seonghwan ("military engagement")
• Battle of the Granua ("military engagement")
• Capture of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas ("military engagement")
• 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état ("military coup")
• Yugoslav military coup of 27 March 1941 ("military coup")
• Operation Joshua
• Malayan Emergency ("counterinsurgency campaign")
• Battle of Pyongyang ("military conflict")
• Battle of Puebla ("military engagement")
• Operation Nimrod
• Battle of Midtskogen ("military engagement")
• Anglo-Maratha Wars ("military conflict")
• Braddock Expedition ("British military operation")
• Battle of Chapultepec ("military engagement")
• Operation Galvanic
• Battle of Dombås ("military engagement")
• Little Turtle's War ("military conflict")
• Operation Dragoon
• Anglo-Afghan Wars ("military conflict")
• British raid on New London, Connecticut ("military raid")
• Battle of Long Island ("military conflict")
• Donbass defensive operations (1941)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ("international military intervention")
• Battle of White Plains ("military engagement")
• Siege of Moscow ("military conflict")
• Kharkov defensive operations (1941)
• Third Anglo-Burmese War ("military conflict")
• Battle of Aughrim (1691) ("military engagement")
• Battle of Marsaglia (1693) ("military engagement")
• Battle of Seneffe ("military engagement")
• Greco-Persian Wars ("military conflict")
• Battle of Palo Alto ("military engagement")
• California Campaign ("United States military operation")
• Battle of Benburb ("military engagement")
• Battle of Resaca de la Palma ("military engagement")
• Lower Silesian Offensive ("military offensive")
• Battle of Dungan's Hill ("military engagement")
• Upper Silesian Offensive ("military offensive")
• Battle of Monterrey ("military engagement")
• Siege of Drogheda
• Battle of Knocknanuss ("military engagement")
• Battle of Assaye ("military engagement")
• Maritz Rebellion (1914) ("military conflict")
• Battle of Hubbardton ("military engagement")
• Battle of Buena Vista ("military engagement")
• Home Army offensive operations in Vilnius region
• Operation Ostra Brama
• Siege of Limerick (1651) ("military engagement")
• Battle of Palkhed ("military conflict")
• Siege of Veracruz
• Sack of Rome 410 AD ("military conflict")
• Battle of Sanna's Post ("military engagement")
• Battle of Cerro Gordo ("military engagement")
• Bombardment of Fort Sumter ("military engagement")
• Battle of Sheriffmuir ("military conflict")
• New Mexico Campaign ("United States military operation")
• First Barbary War ("military conflict")
• New York and New Jersey campaign ("American Revolutionary War campaign")
• Brest blockade
• Battle of the Admin Box ("military engagement")
• Operation Capital ("military offensive")
• Operation Dracula
• Defense of the Reich ("air defense campaign")
• bombing of Coventry
• Battle of Fort Washington ("military engagement")
• Operation Provide Comfort
• Battle of Smolensk (1941) ("military engagement")
• Nanchang Uprising ("military conflict")
• Case White
• Battle of Uman ("military encirclement")
• Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay ("military conflict")
• Operation U-Go ("military offensive")
• Tripartite Aggression ("military conflict")
• Egyptian revolution of 1952 ("military coup")
• Velikiye Luki offensive ("military offensive")
• Sino-Indian War ("military conflict")
• Burning of Washington ("military conflict")
• Siege of Myitkyina ("military conflict")
• Crimean offensive (1944) ("military offensive")
• Stalingrad strategic defensive operations (flank sector)