* April 2001 Everywhere ( mostly Nordic ) Operation Dessert Storm.

* After the assault on the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, Denmark joined the Anti-Comintern Pact, together with the fellow Nordic state of Finland ; the Communist Party was banned in Denmark.

Around 29 April, a Danish contingent ( Nordbat 2 ) on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, as part of UNPROFOR's Nordic battalion located in Tuzla, was ambushed when trying to relieve a Swedish observation post ( Tango 2 ) that was under heavy artillery fire by the Bosnian Serb Šekovići brigade at the village of Kalesija, but the ambush was dispersed when the UN forces retaliated with heavy fire in what would be known as Operation Bøllebank.

A Brazilian-made Avibras ASTROS-II SS-30 multiple rocket systems on Tectran 6x6 AV-LMU trucks stand in firing position while being displayed as part of a demonstration of Saudi Arabia n equipment during Operation Desert Shield ( Gulf War ) | Operation Desert Shield in 1991.

In 2002, it was a primary combat zone in Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ).

A Legion Honor guard | honour guard of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment stands at attention as they await the arrival of Lt. Gen. Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, commander of Joint Forces in Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Shield.

" In June 2002, shortly after the Israeli government launched Operation Defensive Shield, Nasrallah gave a speech in which he defended and praised suicide bombings of Israeli targets by members of Palestinian groups for " creating a deterrence and equalizing fear.

** Operation Ocean Shield, from 2009 ( Gulf of Aden ) – 230 soldiers

In Operation Desert Shield during the buildup phase of the 1st Gulf War, the U. S. Army were concerned about the lack of mobility, protection and firepower offered by existing rapid deployment ( i. e. airborne ) formations ; and also about the slowness of deploying regular armored units.

* 2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.

A Syrian soldier aims a Type 56 assault rifle ( note the unique closed frontal sights ) from his position in a foxhole during a firepower demonstration, part of Operation Desert Shield ( Gulf War ) | Operation Desert Shield.

His initial general officer assignment was Assistant Division Commander ( Maneuver ), 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

He served as Head of the Cruiser-Destroyer Combat Systems Requirements Section and Force Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer for the Commander, Naval Surface Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, and he directed the Joint Staff's Crisis Action Team for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

In response, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive into major West Bank cities.

During Israel's Operation Defensive Shield, the Israel army recovered counterfeit money and documents from Arafat's Ramallah headquarters.

* March 27 – A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 Israeli civilians and injures 140 others at the Park Hotel in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist Israeli military incursion into the West Bank, two days later.

It has been used in the Vietnam War by the United States Army, and in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm by the British Army.

During Operation Desert Shield and Storm, Navy SEALs trained Kuwaiti Special Forces.

In 2002, Ramallah was reoccupied by Israel in an IDF operation codenamed Operation Defensive Shield, which resulted in curfews, electricity cuts, school closures and disruptions of commercial life.

* 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 ( the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) and Operation Marita ( the invasion of Greece ).

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal – The reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.

* 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia ( currently known as Jayapura ) area of New Guinea.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

* 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.

* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

Destroyer USS Agerholm | USS Agerholm fires an ASROC with a nuclear depth bomb in the " Operation Dominic I and II | Swordfish " test in 1962

During Operation Dynamo — the evacuation of 330, 000 BEF and French troops to Britain — Montgomery assumed command of the II Corps.

The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September – November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau.

Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.

The French forces were once again called to Bangui ( Operation Almadin II ), supported by military from Chad and Gabon.

While retaining his professorship at Duke after the beginning of World War II, Linebarger began serving as a second lieutenant of the United States Army, where he was involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.