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‘No Plans at This Point’ to Assign Code Name for Syria, Iraq Operations
Seapower ^ | 9/25/14 | Richard Burgess

Posted on 09/27/2014 2:00:04 PM PDT by tellw

ARLINGTON, Va. — Five days into the U.S. and coalition air strikes against targets of the Islamic Levant (ISIL) inside Syria, and six weeks since the United States began flying air strikes against I Department of Defense (DoD) has yet to assign a code name to the operations.

During a briefing to reporters Sept. 25 at the Pentagon, RADM John Kirby, spokesman for the DoD, said he knew “of no plans at this point” to assign the operation a code name.

DoD and NATO routinely assign code names to combat operations, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom for the Iraq War from March 2003 to August 2010, and even the stability operations in Iraq from September to December 2011, Operation New Dawn. The U.S. air campaign against Libya in 2011 was called Operation Odyssey Dawn, succeeded by NATO’s Operation Unified Protector. Even very short-term operations, such as Operation Praying Mantis against Iran in April 1988, often are assigned names.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Syria
KEYWORDS: isil; isis; operationbombing; operationbombingis; operationbombingisil; operationbombingisis; syria
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To: tellw

Operation Didn’t Do Nuffins.


61 posted on 09/27/2014 7:42:36 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: tellw

I’ll take a stab at the code name for the Puppet’s foreign policy & military actions since 2008:

Operation FUBAR

Oh, yeah...working to the extreme. /s


62 posted on 09/27/2014 8:55:18 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: tellw

Operation October Supplies.


63 posted on 09/27/2014 11:48:34 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: ClearCase_guy
Energetic Kinetic
Twitter Force
Bootless GI Joes
64 posted on 09/28/2014 3:54:14 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: tellw

‘No Plans at This Point’

They’ve already come up with the perfect name.


65 posted on 09/28/2014 7:59:08 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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