Home›Contemporary›All ContemporaryBrowse ByAll ContemporaryReference and ClassificationDevelopingNamed military operations mounted from 1945 onward: the Cold War, post-colonial and post-Cold War era of special-forces raids, hostage rescues, airlifts and limited strikes given their own Operation codename. Belongs here: Operation Entebbe, the 1976 hostage rescue; Operation Eagle Claw, the 1980 failed Iran hostage rescue; Operation Neptune Spear, the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Does not belong here: an operation mounted before 1945, which belongs to Modern instead. This split exists because, read at this atlas's current live population, every one of its military-operation entities falls inside one wide Modern-or-later band; without it the whole type renders flat under EntryCards.GroupBySub, which refuses to group any type with fewer than two label groups.FactsAll ContemporarySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEraWell-attestedfrom 1945 1All ContemporaryFilter Results19 entriesOperation TypeAllAir strike (preemptive) (1)Evacuation (1)Evacuation (humanitarian, child welfare) (1)Humanitarian airlift (1)Humanitarian relief and protection operation (2)Military resupply airlift (1)Naval counter-piracy and maritime security operation (1)Naval retaliatory strike (1)Peacekeeping and stabilization deployment (1)Retaliatory air strike (1)Special-forces hostage rescue (3)Special-forces hostage rescue (aborted) (1)Special-forces operation (manhunt) (1)Special-forces raid (prisoner rescue, no prisoners found) (1)Special-forces raid (targeted killing) (1)Special-forces reconnaissance and rescue (1)WarAllVietnam War (3)War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) (1)LocationAll16 Prince's Gate, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom (1)Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Israel (1)Bin Laden compound, Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (1)Entebbe International Airport, Uganda (1)Gberi Bana and Magbeni, Occra Hills, Sierra Leone (1)Mogadishu, Somalia (1)Northern Iraq (Zakho, Dohuk) and southern Turkey (Silopi) (1)Persian Gulf, Iranian territorial waters (1)Sawtalo Sar mountain, Kunar Province, Afghanistan (1)Somalia (primarily Mogadishu and southern regions) (1)Son Tay prisoner-of-war camp, near Hanoi, North Vietnam (1)Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya (1)Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, near Baghdad, Iraq (1)Forces InvolvedAllBritish Army (3)Israeli Defense Forces (3)Royal Navy (1)United States Air Force (5)United States Army (3)United States Marine Corps (2)United States Navy (5)BrowseCompareSelect all 19Operation AtalantaContemporaryOperation BabyliftContemporaryOperation BarrasContemporaryOperation Eagle ClawContemporaryOperation El Dorado CanyonContemporaryOperation EntebbeContemporaryOperation Frequent WindContemporaryOperation Gothic SerpentContemporaryOperation KingpinContemporaryOperation Neptune SpearContemporaryOperation Nickel GrassContemporaryOperation NimrodContemporaryOperation OperaContemporaryOperation PalliserContemporaryOperation Praying MantisContemporaryOperation Provide ComfortContemporaryOperation Red WingsContemporaryOperation Restore HopeContemporaryOperation SolomonContemporarySources1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)tier 1InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, structure wave 0901 paragraph, Contemporary-covers-1945-onward sentenceQuote, War and Military DataBrief, structure wave 0901 paragraph, Contemporary-covers-1945-onward sentencethis wave adds a fifth SubLabel value used only by this type, Contemporary, covering 1945 onward, with Modern for military-operation narrowed to pre-1945 only.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.