Thread #64918119
American Operation Names
>OVERLORD
>DESERT STORM
>EPIC FURY
British Operation Names
>Market Garden
>Postmaster
>Potluck
German Operation Names
>Yellow
>Blue
>Red
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>>64918119
there's a healthy middleground. Something which does justice to the seriousness of the situation without being reddit-tier cringe or completely dull. Personally I'd be big on anything which can function as a reference to classical literature / the classical world
e.g.
>Op Callisto
>Op Jupiter
>Op Phalanx
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>>64918119
America also has torch and husky. Not all of them are r*ddit-tier cringe shit so this retarded cherrypicking doesn't serve any purpose.
I think it's better to have clear and unique names, at some point you will run out of colors and if you fail some "terminator overload" operation you look even more retarded. Something not totally but poetic that wouldn't betray the purpose of the operation if discovered would be the best; like instead of "market garden" name it "christmas market" in a cheeky reference to the goal of ending the war by xmas. Or just go full on poetic, beauty is a precious thing in this world.
>>64918232
the french did that for their pre-ww1 plans, don't know about anything else
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>>64918119
the ones I like most are the names for our french ops, it's either wind names, animal names, the occasional edgy ancient greece reference, and mostly cool names that don't try hard.
That and weapons system names I guess we found the right balance of cool and chill (which is supposed to mean the same thing but meanings drift over time)
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Sets you up for that rare opportunity that you’re killing some bad guy and he gives a big monologue and you get to sneak it into a witty one liner before you pull out the gun hidden between your butt cheeks. It’s rare but it’s happened at least twice that I can think of.
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>>64918119
>German Operation Names
Those color names are just the result do their convention for code names at that time. I'm not sure if they actually helped to obfuscate stuff.
Other german operation names aren't that different from the western allies.
>Iron Hammer
>Drummbeat
>Beowulf
Although they did have a weird obsession with using names.
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>>64918504
>like instead of "market garden"
a market-garden was the 17th-18th century term for what today is called urban farming, i.e. a small plot in a suburban environment for growing crops. it differs from a kitchen-garden because it's meant to grow crops for sale, hence the "market" in the name
>America also has torch and husky
that was back in the pre-Vietnam days when the US, like the British, didn't give a damn for operation names and picked them semi-randomly out of the dictionary
>>64918815
>invade Aleutians
>Operation AL
they really didn't think this through
>>64918119
>German Operation Names
Watch The Rhine
Baseplate
Eagle Day
Sealion
Ball Lightning
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>When American opperations aren't sponsored by Mountain Dew
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>>64919404
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>>64920456
some things are cliche for a reason anon, whether you find the fact that something's been done a lot inherently problematic is up to you. It's kind of like how something being a well established film trope doesn't mean a film is automatically bad for using it.
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>operation Lancelot
>Operation Perceval
>Operation Guinevere
>operation Durendel
>Operation Bleeding lance
>Operation Grail
>Operation Questing Beast
I like Chivalric romance names.
>>64918504
yah, I am pretty sure operations should be pretty generic and not specific to the operation itself in case the name is leaked. If the brits hear about a german “operation william the conquerer” with no other information, they might increase channel security a bit. but easily memorable so they arent confused when talking about them in the moment.
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