Operations
Every named operation
20 operations between 1948 and 2025 — offensives, peacekeeping deployments, disaster relief and evacuations. Each has a full account of what it set out to do, what it achieved and what it cost, and names the catalogued equipment it was conducted with — so a platform can be read forward into what it did, and an operation backward into what it was fought with.
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Accounts follow the cited sources. Casualty and loss figures are contested for most entries here, frequently along national lines; where they appear they are given as disputed rather than settled, and where they could not be stated fairly they are left out.
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