The Soviet Union declared its plan to intervene in Afghanistan on 12 December 1979, and the Soviet leadership initiated Operation Storm-333 ( the first phase of the intervention ) on 27 December 1979.

It also was used in operations in other countries, the most known being the Operation Storm-333, during which detachments from Alpha and Zenith supported the " Muslim battalion " of the Spetsnaz GRU on a mission to overthrow and kill the Afghan President Hafizullah Amin.

The Operation Storm-333 was the name of the Soviet operation in 1979 in which the Soviet special force, Spetnaz stormed the Tajbeg Palace and killed then President Hafizullah Amin.

The second President of Afghanistan Hafizullah Amin was killed by KGB Alpha Group in Operation Storm-333.

Meanwhile, Lucian Truscott, who had been promoted from the command of U. S. 3rd Infantry Division to replace Lucas as commander of VI Corps on February 22, worked with his staff on the plans for a decisive attack as part of a general offensive which Alexander was planning for May and which would include a major offensive on the Gustav Line, Operation Diadem.

Meanwhile COSSAC had been working on its own deception strategy ; " Appendix Y " of Operation Overlord plan.

Meanwhile thousands of the best German researchers were being put to work in the Soviet Union and in the U. K. and U. S. ( see also Operation Paperclip ).

Meanwhile thousands of the best German researchers were being put to work in the Soviet Union and in the U. S. ( see also Operation Paperclip )

Meanwhile, damage to other transport infrastructure forced Axis forces to use sea, canal and river routes for re-supply, leading to Operation Bowler against shipping in Venice harbour on 21 March 1945.

Meanwhile, planning began for Operation Dauntless, a drive into the Iron Triangle — a key communist concentration area and communications junction in the central sector between Chorwon and Kumwha in the south and Pyonggang in the north.

Meanwhile the German strategic focus on the Eastern Front shifted to southwestern Russia, with the launching of Operation Blue in June.

Meanwhile, Sam Farrar joined a band called Operation Aloha with members of Gomez, Maroon 5.

Meanwhile the Italian invasion of Egypt had failed to achieve its goals and the British counter-offensive, Operation Compass, drove the Italians back into Libya.

Meanwhile, Benham broadened the scope of Operation Save America to include criticism of homosexuality, pornography, and Islam, and formed alliances with Christian conservative groups and the Constitution Party.

Meanwhile, the Red Army continued to allocate as many resources as possible to the eventual launch of the planned Operation Saturn, which aimed to isolate Army Group A from the rest of the German Army.

Meanwhile, planning also began for Operation Ring, which aimed at reducing German forces in the Stalingrad pocket.

Meanwhile, the Mossad Director is furious over the American actions regarding Jericho, but quickly comes up with a plan called " Operation Joshua " to be staged in Vienna that will resolve Jericho's situation from his end in the Mossad's favor.

Meanwhile, in a piece on the left-wing magazine American Prospects site, Jeremy Lott critically linked the announcement of the Corps ' creation to the controversial Operation TIPS, a program encouraging citizens to report ' suspicious activity '.

Meanwhile thousands of the best German researchers and engineers were being put to work in the Soviet Union and in the U. S. ( see Operation Paperclip )

Meanwhile, Sean, Emma, and Penance intercept a distress call from the X-Men, who have been shot down by Operation: Zero Tolerance, and head to Emma's home in Miami in disguise.

Meanwhile on Cybertron, Emirate Xaaron and Impactor, leader of the Wreckers are planning Operation: Volcano as an uprising against the dominant Decepticons led by Lord Straxus.

After ComStar split into two factions Mars was claimed along with Terra by the Word of Blake during Operation Odysseus.

The PAP has held an overwhelming majority of seats in the Parliament of Singapore since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis ( Socialist Front ), a left-wing group that split from PAP in 1961, resigned from Parliament after winning 13 seats following the 1963 state elections, which took place months after a number of their leaders had been arrested in Operation Coldstore based on charges of being communists.

In the fall of 1994, Fort Hood units participated in the largest deployment since Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm executed split base operations in the Caribbean Basin, Central America and Southwest Asia, in support of Operations Vigilant Warrior and Sea Signal V, as well as other contingency operations.

After the German attempt to split the US armies at Mortain ( Operation Lüttich ), Bradley's Army Group and XV Corps became the southern pincer in forming the Falaise Pocket, trapping the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in Normandy.

In preparation for Operation Blue, the 1942 campaign in southern Russia and the Caucasus, Army Group South was split into two armies: Army Group A and Army Group B.

After the outbreak of war with the Soviet Union known as Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army began to retreat so rapidly that the large Einsatzgruppen had to be split into dozens of smaller commandos ( Einsatzkommandos ), responsible for systematically killing Jews and, among others, alleged Soviet partisans behind the Wehrmacht lines.

On 10 July 1941, Schaper's unit was split into smaller Einsatzkommandos due to requirements of Operation Barbarossa.

The origins of Operation PUSH can be traced to a factional split in Operation Breadbasket, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Late in the month, Hubert Meyer was replaced by Obersturmbannführer Hugo Kraas, and the division was attached to Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich's 6th SS Panzer Army, which was forming up for Operation Wacht am Rhein ( the Second Battle of the Ardennes, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge ), a large-scale offensive to recapture Antwerp, halt the Allied advance, and split the Anglo-American alliance.

The battalion was split into three separate groups during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Notably they joined up with Operation: Cliff Clavin for their reunion tour and a split 7 " in 2004, and toured as part of the Plan-It-X Records bus tour in 2005.

Mullaney and Charles Wang, an investor in his project from prior to the merger, split from Operation Smile to co-found Smile Train in 1999.

China was the first country in which Smile Train operated, having split off from Operation Smile.

* The Other Operation, 1988, split album with Statement ( Patrick Poole )

In 2002, fighting Abu Sayyaf became a mission of the American military's Operation Enduring Freedom and part of the U. S. War on Terror .< ref >

The Israeli mission later became known as Operation Wrath of God or Mivtza Za ' am Ha ' El.

Following the lead of Boston's Mighty Mighty Bosstones and two California bands, Berkeley's Operation Ivy and Long Beach's Sublime, ska punk and ska-core became widely popular in the mid-1990s.

... And Out Come the Wolves, the 1995 album by Rancid — which had evolved out of Operation Ivy — became the first record in this ska revival to be certified gold ; Sublime's self-titled 1996 album was certified platinum early in 1997.

As part of a UN Peacekeeping Operation, Philippine Army General Jaime de los Santos became the first commander of troops responsible for maintaining order in East Timor.

Operation Castle became the highest-yield nuclear test series ever conducted by the United States.

Soon after Romania joined the Axis in Operation Barbarossa, recovering Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Antonescu also became Marshal of Romania.

German troops promptly invaded northern Italy and the provinces of Trento, Belluno and South Tyrol became part of the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills, annexed to Greater Germany.

Operation Felix, the plan for taking Gibraltar, became stillborn as Spain remained neutral, a situation in large part caused by the German demand that Spain provide Germany with naval bases in Canary Islands as the price for Gibraltar.

After it became clear that Spain would not enter the war, on 18 December 1940 Hitler approved Operation Barbarossa, declaring that henceforth the Wehrmacht's number one priority would be the defeat of the Soviet Union " even before the conclusion of the war against England ".

The CEP would see major action at Battle of La Lys, as it became known in Portugal or Operation Georgette / Battle of Estaires to the British.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

While Britain and the United States did not yet possess the resources to mount a full invasion, invasion plans that came to be known as Operation Sledgehammer were drawn up, in case the German position in Western Europe weakened or the USSR's situation became dire.

By 1979, during what became known as Operation Wrath of God, at least one Mossad unit had assassinated eight PLO members.

On 25 June 1948 " Operation Vittles ," the strategic airlift of supplies to Berlin's 2, 000, 000 inhabitants, was initiated, beginning what became known as the Berlin Airlift.

Operation of the Shamokin station ( located at the current Independence Street site of Jones Hardware Company ) on September 22, 1883, at which time St. Edward's Catholic Church became the first church in the world to have electric lighting.

Fairchild tanker crews became actively involved in Operation YOUNG TIGER, refueling combat aircraft in Southeast Asia.

900 Free French paratroopers landed as part of the British Special Air Service ( SAS ) Brigade ; the Free French 2nd Armored Division — under General Leclerc — landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on 1 August 1944, and eventually led the drive toward Paris, while the divisions which had been fighting in Italy became part of the French First Army — under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny — and joined the U. S. 7th Army in Operation Dragoon.

When NATO initiated Operation NOBLE ANVIL air operations directed at Serbian targets to prevent genocide against Kosovo Moslems, it became immediately apparent that the coalition's message was not reaching audiences in the region that were being bombarded by Slobodan Milosevic's information ministry's propaganda.

On 17 July 1962, the test shot " Little Feller I " of Operation Sunbeam became the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.

It has more recently been used in the film adaptation ( Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker ) of Anthony Horowitz's novel Stormbreaker, The Bourne Identity and it was reproduced with Korean lyrics for the movie Collateral, the song has also been used during the performances of extreme freestyle water ski jumpers, the song later became the theme song for the TV Show TRL Italy since 2003 until 2005.

With the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the success of Operation Desert Storm, Global Reach-Global Power became the blueprint to organize, train, and equip the Air Force to confront the challenges of a fast-changing world.

After returning to Alaska, Stevens practiced law in Anchorage and became a member of Operation Rampart, a group in favor of building the Rampart Dam, a hydroelectric project on the Yukon River.

According to currently released documentation, none of the operations became active under the auspices of the Operation Northwoods proposals.