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Old 07-22-2011, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by natehale1971 View Post
I can't remember if we talked about this already... but has anyone come up with the Operational Names of the various offesnsives during the Twilight War?

I had been using the operational name Operation Butterfly for the NATO Summer Offensive... with each of the smaller compoent operations being named after the many different types of butterflies (example, Operation Swallowtail, Operation Fritillary, Operation Tortoiseshell and Operation Monarch).
Isn't a two-word name NATO standard, or is that just the US? I'm pretty sure Advent Crown was the 1997 offensive, I think I read that in Black Madonna.

Also, Butterfly might sound too peaceful? Churchill long ago called for code names to neither be too rough nor too soft, he didn't want to have to tell a widow her man died during Operation Bunnyhug.

I used to pull out a dictionary, and open it at random for code names.
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