I find this very interesting... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_color-coded_war_...
Germans did that too. Invasion of Poland, (whose anniversary is today) was Case White. Case Yellow was the invasion of France, etc...
How military operations get their code names (2011)
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Re: How military operations get their code names (2011)
#12It is far more casual than anyone like to admit. Lots of jokes get through, little rebellions by junior officers tasked with inventing names. A classic example was "Operation Iraqi Liberation", an early name for the invasion of Iraq. Another may be an early program whereby ai/software selected targets for future strikes over Afghanistan: Skynet.
Sorry - what is the joke in "Operation Iraqi Liberation"?
OIL being a comment on the real motivation for the operation.
Re: How military operations get their code names (2011)
#13It is far more casual than anyone like to admit. Lots of jokes get through, little rebellions by junior officers tasked with inventing names. A classic example was "Operation Iraqi Liberation", an early name for the invasion of Iraq. Another may be an early program whereby ai/software selected targets for future strikes over Afghanistan: Skynet.
The FBI has fun with this, too. They named the investigation into rich parents buying their dumb kids into fancy universities "Operation Varsity Blues." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139699/
Also "Operation Jackpot" which was a bust of more than 100 pot smugglers in the early 80's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jackpot_(drug_invest...
The book on the "Gentlemen Smugglers" and how they got busted is a good read.
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Re: How military operations get their code names (2011)
#14I've never been able to find a source for it but I heard that apparently the German's in WW2 had a plan called "Operation suicide plan"
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#16This says nothing about HOW which, after all is the title of the article
As someone who has named operations I can tell you how it works
It's pretty random and whoever says the first thing that sounds good usually goes. That said, at least one shop I worked in had a consistent theme with naming ops but that was about it.
Re: How military operations get their code names (2011)
#17This says nothing about HOW which, after all is the title of the article As someone who has named operations I can tell you how it works It's pretty random and whoever says the first thing that sounds good usually goes. That said, at least one shop I worked in had a consistent theme with naming ops but that was about it.
What, you didn't MDMP the name (along with all other minutiae) to death?
Re: How military operations get their code names (2011)
#18Ironically an anime that also released in 2011 called Steins;Gate has operations with crazy names.
When it’s revealed what the criteria for the names are, it boiled down to “made up whatever sounded cool”
Re: How military operations get their code names (2011)
#19See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Code of which the cancelled Black Arrow rocket programme might be the most famous.
Re: How military operations get their code names (2011)
#20This says nothing about HOW which, after all is the title of the article As someone who has named operations I can tell you how it works It's pretty random and whoever says the first thing that sounds good usually goes. That said, at least one shop I worked in had a consistent theme with naming ops but that was about it.
What, you didn't MDMP the name (along with all other minutiae) to death?
Oh, that's certainly been done before
Usually not though