This dimension names the place where a military operation actually took place. Wikipedia notes that operations respond "to a developing situation" wherever that situation actually arises. Browsing this way collects every operation carried out in the same location.
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Comparison
Earliest Era Represented Location
16 Prince's Gate, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Location
1 entry
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Israel
Location
1 entry
Amiens Prison, Amiens, German-occupied France
Location
1 entry
Bin Laden compound, Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Location
1 entry
Bordeaux, German-occupied France
Location
1 entry
Bruneval, German-occupied France
Location
1 entry
Dunkirk, France, and the English Channel
Location
1 entry
Entebbe International Airport, Uganda
Location
1 entry
Gberi Bana and Magbeni, Occra Hills, Sierra Leone
Location
1 entry
Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Location
1 entry
Mogadishu, Somalia
Location
1 entry
Northern Iraq (Zakho, Dohuk) and southern Turkey (Silopi)
Location
1 entry
Persian Gulf, Iranian territorial waters
Location
1 entry
Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Location
1 entry
Ruhr Valley, Germany (Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams)
Location
1 entry
Sawtalo Sar mountain, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Location
1 entry
Somalia (primarily Mogadishu and southern regions)
Location
1 entry
Son Tay prisoner-of-war camp, near Hanoi, North Vietnam
Location
1 entry
St Nazaire, German-occupied France
Location
1 entry
Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya
Location
1 entry
Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, near Baghdad, Iraq
Location
1 entry
Sources
1. War and Military Atlas Periodization
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All 29 live military-operation entities fall inside the existing Modern band on Transport by start-date, by analogy the same on military: this atlas own military-operation type carries no Ancient, Medieval or Early Modern subcategory, only Modern and Contemporary.
Wikipedia: Operation Chastise
Wikipedia: Operation Jericho
Wikipedia: Operation Anthropoid
Wikipedia: Operation Frankton
Wikipedia: Operation Gunnerside
Wikipedia: Operation Mincemeat
Wikipedia: Operation Biting
Wikipedia: Operation Chariot
Wikipedia: Operation Dynamo
Wikipedia: Operation Ke
Wikipedia: Operation Entebbe
Wikipedia: Operation Eagle Claw
Wikipedia: Operation Nimrod
Wikipedia: Operation Kingpin
Wikipedia: Operation Praying Mantis
Wikipedia: Operation Neptune Spear
Wikipedia: Operation Red Wings
Wikipedia: Operation Gothic Serpent
Wikipedia: Operation Opera
Wikipedia: Operation Frequent Wind
Wikipedia: Operation Babylift
Wikipedia: Operation Solomon
Wikipedia: Operation Provide Comfort
Wikipedia: Operation Restore Hope
Wikipedia: Operation El Dorado Canyon
Wikipedia: Operation Barras
Wikipedia: Operation Palliser
Wikipedia: Operation Atalanta
Wikipedia: Operation Nickel Grass
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