Talk:List of military operations

message: Why are the WWII and Cold War ops lists repeated? Is there any reason the duplicated lists should not be merged? Bbpen 16:18, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated lists? 

message: OK, I crosschecked both Cold War ops lists and removed this second one. Bbpen 16:34, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acting boldly 

message: Crosschecked both WWII ops lists and removed this second one. Bbpen 16:39, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  More bold actions 

message: Crosschecked remaining duplicate lists and removed these. Bbpen 16:44, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Final bold action

message: I hope you like the new organization of the page. We might want to do WWII this way also. [[PaulinSaudi 08:58, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Order And Discipline!

message: Dear Iam, 
All this Wikistuff is case-sensitive. Your SEALORD now points to Operation Sealords. When I first got here I protested much. We both know codewords are CAPITALIZED.  That is just the local custom here, we cannot really change it.
Welcome to the Wiki!
[[PaulinSaudi 03:03, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: SEALORD vice Sealords

message: Forgive the spam, but I'm trying to round up wikipedians with an interest in international military history to help work out some conventions for the names of military units. If you are interested in that sort of thing, please visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions (military units) and join the discussions on the talk page. — B.Bryant 17:48, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (military units)]] 

message: The subdivision of WW2 operations hasn't prompted ny comments at all. I'll assume it's ok. 
Next: the size of this whole article is getting a bit big and there's warnings about this on amendments. I suggest that the WW2 section be removed to a new article completely, with appropriate links. I'll wait for comments and suggestions, of course. Then, unless it's a problem, I'll go ahead on, say 6th November. It will be reversible. Folks at 137 21:58, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  World War 2 operations again 

message: Time to separate the military from the non-military and even the projects from the operations? GraemeLeggett 17:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separation 

message: This is not intended to be a forum for a bunch of crazy Slavs to fight amongst themselves, so try to get some objectivity here.  Whatever happened in Croatia is not commonly referred to as the 'Croatian War of Independence'.  On the other side of the coin there has been certified evidence of atrocities committed by Serbs against Kosovars and Croats in military actions within the former Yugoslavia.
I have renamed Croatian War of Independence to War in Croatia, just like War in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  I have also removed the word liberate as it is clearly NPOV, and any other NPOV terms.
Kransky 08:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Croats vs Serbs 

message: Not sure how, but I appear to have wiped this page earlier today (20:13). This was an accident, and I wish to apologise. Other editors have restored the info. Probably getting over-confident. My wrist is slapped. Folks at 137 20:44, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mea culpa - apology

message: "Slipper — the Royal Australian Navy's contribution to the invasion of Afghanistan "
how on Earth would a navy been useful against an inland country? -- 01:58, 29 April 2006 Kransky
Airstrikes, reconstruction teams, corpsmen, special forces, etc. PRRfan 14:07, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Slipper

message: Now has its own category 203.13.2.142 04:27, Kransky 02:47, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: East Timor

message: I have grouped both military and law enforcement activities together, including the activities in Afghanistan (covered unchanged under its own sub-category).  
The nature of counter-terrorist activities involving both civil and military organisations makes it tricky to define taxonomies, to say nothing of the controversy to link other conflicts in (Chechnya?  Thailand? Iraq?).  For the sake of simplicity I am just including operations directed against broadly Islamist threats in the post 9/11 era (this is not a clear-cut operation). 
And did you know some terrorists also name their operations?
Law enforcement operations do not belong on a list of military operations unless they are operations conducted by military law enforcement. I have little confidence that any operation at present in the law enforcement section is valid. I checked two and they were not military operations. I removed them.  TMLutas (talk) 20:45, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Global War on Terror

message: Now that someone put this into :Category:Lists I'm trying to figure out which sub-category it should go in.  One thing that throws me is that the title says "and non-military" but its only included in military operations categories.  The name seems to be too broad in that non-military operations and projects seems like it ought to include my project to build a deck in my backyard.  What is this list really about?  --JeffW 03:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, the list was intended merely to be a list of "operations", to satisfy a curiosity about the allocation of such names. It includes police actions, for instance, which are not military. I've concentrated on WWII ops and it's been helpful and informative to ferret out the info. IMHO, the list is too broad and unmanageable and I've advocated extracting the WWII data to a new list. There's discussion on this, above; particularly from PaulinSaudi. Your suggestions welcomed. Folks at 137 19:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My opinion is that it isn't useful to lump things together that are really different just because they contain a common word.  Therefore, I think the non-military stuff should be put in its own list, or just deleted because there doesn't seem to be enough to justify a list.  --JeffW 21:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 09:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where does this fit? 

message: I have created categories for the Vietnam War, Korean War and "Southern Africa", which are easily recognisable and distinct wars where operations generically could be considered 'Cold War' can be placed.  Other military/intelligence operations of the Cold War (i.e.: between East and West, both proxy and/or involving the superpowers directly) can be placed here, such as Grenada, Cuba, Berlin etc.
One issue are conflicts that have outlasted the Cold War (such as Israel versus its neighbours), or which were not directly an East-West issue (such as the Falklands War, or India-Pakistan).  Any suggestions?  Kransky 05:46, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subcategories for Cold War 

message: An experiment. I've added national flags to some WWII operations to indicate national origin (the "attacker" not "attackee"). Does this help? I think a graphic is easier to pick out than words. Comments? Folks at 137 09:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Splendid idea! I'm looking forward to see 36 flags at Operation Desert Storm ;-)  Necessary Evil 15:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll leave that one to you, NE! Seriously though, it's a point: does it invalidate the idea? Folks at 137 22:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Using 36 flag icons is no more or less doable than 36 names. So what's the difference? The flags idea is fine. Use them (and/or names) for the main combatants, otherwise, just use a name like "Allies", "Axis", "Coalition" etc.Michael Dorosh 23:13, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: National indication

message: I've changed the small Japanese red dots with :Image:Naval Ensign of Japan.svg because the red dots look odd. The  was also the flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.--Necessary Evil 17:31, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banzaiii 

message: I have added a separate section for all conflicts involving Israel (strictly speaking, not all of them involve Arabs - somebody think of anything better).  Kransky 06:56, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arab Israeli Conflict 

message: This list is essentially a list of one-word codenames (operations), but I can't find a list yet of two-word codenames (programs, I think).  Can anyone assist?  70.251.32.227 (talk) 01:54, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Codenames 

message: The only law enforcement operations that should be on this list are ones that were a joint operation between military and law enforcement.  An example are some of the operations in the U.S. coastal waters whereby the Coast guard personnel deploy and conduct operations from U.S. Navy vessels.eximo (talk) 18:41, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Arguments against removing law enforcement section:

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message: I wonder when it will occur to editors that this list, even as a list of lists of operations, will swell to unmanageable proportions?Georgejdorner (talk) 02:51, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that as a list of operations it will be unmanageable. I see merit in the idea of it being a list of lists, though.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 04:02, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  This list is a ridiculous idea.