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The ICBM A9 / A10 rocket initially was intended to be guided by radio, but was changed to be a piloted craft after the failure of Operation Elster.
This was a fortunate position since the Luftwaffe's strategy of focusing its striking power on one front started to unravel with the failure of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
But after the failure of Operation Zitadelle, the Turkish government participated in the Second Cairo Conference in 1943, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and İsmet İnönü reached an agreement on issues regarding Turkey's possible contribution to the Allies.
He had advised Hitler not to attack Russia in 1941 as he was convinced that " Operation Barbarossa " would be a failure.
With the failure of the British attempt to force a crossing of the Rhine at Arnhem ( Operation Market Garden ) in late September, the chance of invading Germany before the winter set in was lost, and Rundstedt was given time to consolidate his position.
* Saddam Hussein's failure to provide unfettered access to UN arms inspectors led Washington and London to hit 100 Iraqi targets in four days of bombing as part of Operation Desert Fox.
Most of the T-35 tanks still operational at the time of Operation Barbarossa were lost due to mechanical failure rather than enemy action.
During Operation Barbarossa, ninety percent of the T-35s lost by the 67th and 68th Tank Regiments were lost not to enemy action but through either mechanical failure or because they were abandoned and destroyed by their crews.
Volume 5 of Churchill's The Second World War is riddled with implied criticism of Lucas, blaming the failure of Operation Shingle on his caution.
Churchill determined to relieve Wavell and after the failure in mid June of Operation Battleaxe, intended to relieve Tobruk, he told Wavell on 20 June that he was to be replaced by Auchinleck, whose attitude during the Iraq crisis had impressed him.
Hubert Meyer goes even further, attributing Operation Perch's failure solely to Wittmann's " courage, his tactical and technical abilities and [...] the valor, the expertise and the camaraderie of his Panzer crew ".
On 15 December 1956, after the failure of Operation Harvest and the introduction of the Special Powers Act, Murphy and Sean Cronin visited to convey the message that his usefulness to the IRA cause was over.
The main reason for the large aircraft losses in the initial period of war with Germany was not the lack of modern tactics, but the lack of experienced pilots and ground support crews, the destruction of many aircraft on the runways due to command failure to disperse them, and the rapid advance of the Wehrmacht ground troops, forcing the Soviet pilots on the defensive during Operation Barbarossa, while being confronted with more modern German aircraft.
The kidnapping of the Uruguayans in Porto Alegre entered into history as the only failure with international repercussion in the whole Operation Condor, among several hundreds of clandestine actions from the Latin America Southern Cone dictatorships, who were responsible for thousands of killed and missing people in the period between 1975 and 1985.
Another notable failure was the 1994 bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434, which turned out to be a test run for a planned terrorist attack called Operation Bojinka.
The CIO ’ s major organizing drive of this era, Operation Dixie, aimed at the textile workers of the South, was a complete failure, due to the CIO ’ s reluctance to confront Jim Crow.
At the height of the Iran hostage crisis in 1980 following the failure of the American rescue mission Operation Eagle Claw and crash of U. S. helicopters killing their crews, Khalkhali appeared on television
In September 1986, the politico-military method of " mass violent insurrectionist uprisings " was finally aborted after the failure of " Operation 20th century ", as the assassination attempt on Pinochet by the FPMR was called.
Operation Rheinubung was a failure, and although the Germans scored an incidental success by sinking the old battlecruiser Hood, this was more than offset with the loss of the modern battleship Bismarck, which represented one-quarter of the Kriegsmarine's capital ships.
The unworkable command and control structure of separate US military special operations forces ( SOF ), which led to the failure of Operation Eagle Claw in 1980, highlighted the need within the Department of Defense for reform and reorganization.
Although Task Force Ranger's few missions were successes, the overall outcome of Operation Gothic Serpent was deemed a failure because of the Task Force's failure to complete their stated mission, capturing Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
Germany's planned invasion of the UK, Operation Sea Lion, was averted by its failure to establish air superiority in the Battle of Britain.

Operation and led
For instance during Operation Enduring Freedom the United States attacked targets of very low monetary value with cruise missiles, which led many to question the efficiency of the weapon.
A personal high point was the reception of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.
* 1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
This led to a CIA-orchestrated coup in 1954, known as Operation PBSUCCESS, which saw Arbenz toppled and forced into exile by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.
In mid-September 1994, with U. S. troops prepared to enter Haiti by force for Operation Uphold Democracy, President Bill Clinton dispatched a negotiating team led by former President Jimmy Carter to persuade the authorities to step aside and allow for the return of constitutional rule.
The Allies, led by the United States coordinated a massive build-up of troops and supplies to support a large-scale invasion of Normandy in the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 under the code name Operation Overlord.
The pact was broken, with the initiation of Operation Barbarossa: arguably the decision that led to Germany losing the war.
A Canadian and U. S. led operation ( supported by British and Dutch forces ), Operation Mountain Thrust was launched in May 2006 to counter renewed Taliban insurgency.
Gandhi's 1984 action to defeat Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale led to the attack of the Golden Temple in Operation Bluestar and ultimately led to Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh bodyguards.
* February 28 – Operation Gunnerside: 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant Vemork.
* July 24 – The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, Operation Helpem Fren, led by Australia, begins.
In the Second World War Gibson led the successful Operation Chastise attack on dams in Germany.
In 1944 thirty Belarusians ( known as Čorny Kot ( Black Cat ) and personally led by Michał Vituška ) were airdropped by the Luftwaffe behind the lines of the Red Army, which had already liberated Belarus during Operation Bagration.
Sharon personally led the raid, codenamed Operation Black Arrow.
The severe pressure on the RUC and B-Specials led, during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969, to the British Army being called in to support the civil administration under Operation Banner.
In 1942, a new conspiratorial group formed, led by Colonel Henning von Tresckow, a member of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's staff, who commanded Army Group Centre in Operation Barbarossa.
The attacks on 11 September 2001, led to the initiation of three ongoing missions: Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF ), Operation Iraqi Freedom ( OIF ), and Operation Noble Eagle ( ONE ).
Codenamed Operation Bravo, the first stage of the scheme would involve some of Tung's loyalist soldiers, disguised as insurgents led by apparently renegade junior officers, faking a coup and vandalising the capital.
In 1968, he was caught out by the Tết Offensive due to complacency, and during the 1971 Operation Lam Sơn 719 and the communists ’ Easter Offensive, the I Corps in the north of the country was under the command of his confidant, Hoàng Xuân Lãm, whose incompetence led to heavy defeats until Thiệu finally replaced him with Ngô Quang Trưởng.
This led directly to the Coup d ' état via Operation Ajax in support of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.

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