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Originally Posted by copeab
Ah, I miss the old days when an operation name was largely random and wasn't *supposed* to have any connection to the mission.
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Piece of minor trivia but AFAIK the British Army has always used a two word code name if an excercise (e.g. Operation Swift Sword in Oman a few years ago) and a one word code name if an actual operation (e.g. Operation Corporate for the Falkands War, Operation Granby for Gulf War 1, etc).
I'm sure I read somewhere that the one word code names are generated completely at random by a computer in the Ministry of Defence.