This is a list of missions, operations, and projects. Missions in support of other missions are not listed independently.
Cold War Era
Asia
— Pakistani Military operation in the disputed Rann of kutch area against Indian intruders.
Europe
- Berlin Airlift of 1948:
- Vittles
— US part of the Berlin Airlift
- Planefare
— British part of the Berlin Airlift.
- Gladio (?) — Stockpiles of weapons in Italy, Switzerland, Austria and other countries for resistance to Soviet occupiers.
- Gold (1954)

— covert American tunnel under the Berlin Wall
- Neptune (1964)
— Soviet-led counterintelligence operation.
- Reforger
— Annual American exercise to "return forces to Germany".
- Retail (1946)
— British clearance of naval mines laid in Albanian waters.
- Silver (1949)
— covert British communications tap in Austria
- Danube (1968)
— Warsaw Pact invasion to halt Czechoslovakia's "Prague Spring" reforms
- Banner (1969–2007)
Deployment of British troops to Northern Ireland to prevent sectarian killings and support the police during the 1969–1997 armed campaign of the Provisional IRA. Operation Banner resulted in over 700 British Armed Forces deaths and 303 police deaths at the hands of native Irish Republicans. 307 people were killed by the British troops, about 51% of whom were civilians and 42% of whom were members of republican paramilitaries.
South America
- Brother Sam (1964)
— A US government contingency plan to support the military coup that overthrew the Brazilian constitutional president João Goulart, if the coup had faced armed resistance
- The track down operation (1967)
— that captured and executed Che Guevara
- Condor (1970s) —
— A campaign run by then South American Military Dictatorships' intelligence services with United States' support, which goal was extrajudicial and secretly, find, capture and eliminate political dissidents who, had succeeded to escape political repression in their homelands but could be found in any of these other countries.
Central America and the Caribbean
- Fortune (1950s)
— 1951 CIA plan for a coup in Guatemala. Executed as Success.
- Success (1954)
— 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala.
- Northwoods (1960s)
— plan to incite war between the United States and Cuba.
- Peter Pan (1960s) — transfer of Cubans to the US
- Operation Pluto (1961)
— plan to invade Cuba and overthrow its government using a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles.
- Mongoose (1962)
— plan for information gathering, sabotage, civil insurrection and overthrow of the Cuban government.
- Phibriglex (1962)
— US plan and mock invasion by its armed forces of a Caribbean island. The exercise took place on Vieques and the purpose of the mock invasion was to overthrow a fictitious leader called "Ortsac", whose name was, in fact, Castro spelled backwards. It occurred in August, shortly before the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is also known by the names Operation Ortsac, Operation Swift Strike II and Exercise Phibriglex-62.
- Anadyr (1962)
— Cuban-Soviet plan to base nuclear weapons in Cuba; the cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Kama (1962)
— Soviet plan to forward-base seven Soviet ballistic missile submarines in Mariel, Cuba (part of Anadyr)
- Power Pack (1965)
— US deployment with OEA military support in the Dominican Republic
- Waverider (1972)
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- Urgent Fury (1983)
— US invasion of Grenada
- Contras covert operation (1980s)
— Covert operations undertaken by Ronald Reagan's administration to provide financial, military, logistic and supply support for the Contras
- Golden Pheasant (1988)
— US deployment in Honduras
- Just Cause (1989)
— US invasion of Panama
Southern Africa
- Hurricane (1972–1980)
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— Operations by Rhodesian security forces against ZIPRA and ZANU guerillas in Mashonaland.
- Overload (1974)
— Rhodesian security forces operation to establish protected villages.
- Savannah (1975–76)
— South African intervention in Angola in support of the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA).
- Carlota (1977)
— Cuban Deployment to counter South African attacks to Angola.
- Dingo (1977)
— Rhodesian attack on camps in Mozambique.
- Tangent (1977–1980)
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— Operations by Rhodesian security forces against insurgents in Matabeleland.
- Favour (1978–1980)
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— Training of former insurgents to serve as security force auxiliaries in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
- Reindeer (1978)
— South African airborne attack on South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) base at Cassinga, Angola.
- Rekstok (1979)
— South African attack on SWAPO bases in Angola.
- Saffraan (1979)
— South African attack on SWAPO bases in Zambia.
- Klipklop (1980)
— South African disruption of SWAPO logistics in Angola.
- Sceptic (1980)
— South African attack on SWAPO bases in Angola.
- Protea (1981)
— South African attack on SWAPO bases near Ongiva and Xangongo, Angola.
- Carnation (1981)
— South African skirmishes with SWAPO forces along the Angolan border.
- Meebos (1982)
— South African destruction of SWAPO's "East Front" HQ at Mupa, Angola.
- Askari (1983)
— South African attack on SWAPO and People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) forces in Angola.
- Phoenix (1983)
— South African response to mass SWAPO infiltration of South-West Africa
- Alpha Centauri (1986)
— South African operation in support of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in Angola.
- Moduler (1987)
— South African operation to reverse the FAPLA advance on Mavinga and Jamba.
- Hooper (1988)
— South African operation followup to Modular in pursuit of retreating FAPLA forces.
- Packer (1988)
— South African operation to push FAPLA and Cuban forces north of the Cuito river following Hooper.
Chad
- Bison (1969–1972)
— French intervention to counter FROLINAT insurgency.
- Tacaud (1978–1980)
— Operation to avoid FROLINAT rebels taking Chad's capital.
- Manta (1983–1984)
— Intervention in the Chadian-Libyan conflict.
- Épervier (1986–2014)
— French military presence in Chad originally designed to counter Libyan expansion in Northern Chad, then continued to support Chad during the Sudanese backed Chadian Civil War and later focused on counterterrorism against jihadi threats in the Sahel region.
Congo/Zaire
Central African Republic
- Barracuda (1979–1981)
— Occupation of Bangui, Central African Republic as a peace-keeping intervention after the overthrow of Emperor Bokassa.
- Caban (1979)
— Capture of Bangui airport as a prelude to Operation Barracuda in order to overthrow Emperor Bokassa.
Falklands War (1982)
- Rosario
— Argentine joint operation
- Corporate
— British recapture of the islands
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