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Operation Steep Hill (I through XV) – Planning and intelligence operations for the use of military force to prevent violence in association with civil rights demonstrations in the early 1960s. Steep Hill XIII called elements of the Alabama National Guard and regular army into service to protect marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. [266]
Presently, British forces tend to use one-word names, presumably in keeping with their post-World War II policy of reserving single words for operations and two-word names for exercises. British operation code names are usually randomly generated by a computer and rarely reveal its components or any political implications unlike the American ...
Operation Roll-Up (1949) — Refurbishment and redeployment of World War II equipment. Blue Hearts (1950) — UN amphibious landings at Pohang. Courageous (1951) — Movement of UN infantry units up the Imjin River . Tomahawk (1951) — Deployment of airmobile forces in the Battle of the Imjin River.
Operation Vijay. 1961. Goa, Daman & Diu. The operation by the Military of India that led to the incorporation of Portuguese India (Goa, Daman, and Diu) into India. 5. Operation Ablaze. 1965. Indo-Pak Border (Western sector) Operations by the Indian Army along the western border in May-June 1965, following Pakistani attack in the Rann of Kutch.
R.A.S. ( R escue A id S ociety), from the movies The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. R.E.D. ( R eliable E xcavation (and) D emolition), a front for one of the warring companies in Team Fortress 2. Red uniforms. S.A.B.R.E., a fictional agency representing the UK, Australia, and India in the video game Evil Genius.
William Cunningham, Loyalist militia commander in South Carolina. "Bloody George" – George Alan Vasey, Second World War Australian general. "Bluey" – Keith Truscott, Second World War Australian fighter ace. "Blutiger Ferdinand" ("Bloody Ferdinand") – Ferdinand Schörner, World War II German field marshal and convicted war criminal.
Military simulation. Soldiers from Britain's Royal Artillery train in a "virtual world" during Exercise Steel Sabre, 2015. Military simulations, also known informally as war games, are simulations in which theories of warfare can be tested and refined without the need for actual hostilities. Military simulations are seen as a useful way to ...
Contracted by the U.S. department of Defense during the most recent War in Iraq. Aegis Defence Services Ltd was acquired by GardaWorld International Protective Services. [5] Erinys International. Dubai. A joint South African - British private security company registered in the British Virgin Islands.