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Operation Phoenix (1966)
Operation Phoenix or Phenix may refer to: Military * Phoenix Program, CIA military, intelligence, and internal security program during the Vietnam War * Vela incident, alleged 1979 Israeli-South African nuclear test that was supposedly codenamed "Operation Phenix" * Project Phoenix (South Africa), SANDF project to revitialise the Reserve Force * Operation Phoenix (South Africa), South African response to mass SWAPO infiltration of South-West Africa * 2008 Colombian raid into Ecuador, codenamed Operación Fénix (Operation Phoenix) * Operation Phoenix (1966), Vietnam War military operation, February 1966 in Biên Hòa Province * Operation Phoenix (1995), Croatian Army defence of Slavonia during Operation Storm Other * Operation Phoenix (railway) Operation Phoenix was a post-World War II rehabilitation program carried out by the Victorian Railways (VR) in Australia. The program commenced in 1950 and was originally planned to take 10 years and cost £80 million pounds. (V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Program
The Phoenix Program ( vi, Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, Australian, and South Vietnamese militaries. In 1969, CIA responsibility was phased out, and the program was put under the authority of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS).Lewy, Guenter (1978), ''America in Vietnam'', New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 280-281 The program, which lasted from 1967 to 1972, was designed to identify and destroy the Viet Cong (VC) via infiltration, torture, capture, counter-terrorism, interrogation, and assassination. The CIA described it as "a set of programs that sought to attack and destroy the political infrastructure of the Viet Cong." The Phoenix Program was premised on the idea that North Vietnamese infiltration had required local support within noncombat civilian populations, which were referred to as the "VC i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vela Incident
The Vela incident was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the South African territory of Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa and Antarctica. Today, most independent researchers believe that the flash was caused by a nuclear explosion—an undeclared joint nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel. The cause of the flash remains officially unknown, and some information about the event remains classified by the U.S. government. While it has been suggested that the signal could have been caused by a meteoroid hitting the satellite, the previous 41 double flashes detected by the Vela satellites were caused by nuclear weapons tests. Detection The " double flash", then dubbed the South Atlantic flash, was detected on 22 September 1979, at 00:53 UTC, by the American Vela satellite OPS 6911 (also known as Vela 10 and Vela 5B), which carried various sensors desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Phoenix (South Africa)
Project Phoenix is an ongoing programme within the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to revive its Reserve Force and bring it on a par with the Regular Force under a "One Force policy." The aim is to reach a point whereby members of the Reserve Force can be easily substituted for those of the Regular Force for combat operations Combat operations area - process is undertaken by armed forces during military campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements to facilitate the setting of objectives, direction of combat, and assessment of the operation plan's success. ..., thus easing the requirement to sustain a large Regular Force. Military history of South Africa {{SouthAfrica-mil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African National Defence Force
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) comprises the Military, armed forces of South Africa. The commander of the SANDF is appointed by the President of South Africa from one of the Military branch, armed services. They are in turn accountable to the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans of the Department of Defence (South Africa), Defence Department. The military as it exists today was created in 1994, following South Africa's first nonracial election in April of that year and the adoption of a new constitution. It replaced the South African Defence Force and also integrated uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), and the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) guerilla forces. History Integration process In 1994, the SANDF took over the personnel and equipment from the South African Defence Force, SADF and integrated forces from the former Bantustan homelands forces, as well as personnel from the former guerrilla forces of some of the political parties involved in South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Phoenix (South Africa)
Operation Phoenix was an operation in 1983 by the South African Defence Force and South West African Territorial Force in response to a major incursion by PLAN fighters from Angola into the white farming areas of northern South West Africa. Background SWAPO's military wing PLAN had created a specialised infiltration unit called Volcano. Members of this unit had spent the second half of 1982 receiving training from East German, Cuban and Russian instructors and were regarded as best PLAN soldiers. By January 1983, 1000 to 1700 members of Volcano began the journey south to the Angolan/South West Africa border. They were then formed into fourteen companies of 50 to 70 soldiers. Their mission was for thirteen of those companies, was to cross the border and engage the SWATF and SADF forces while the last company would not engage those forces but instead head southwards to the white farming areas of northern South West Africa. Operation On the 13 February 1983, the thirteen companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Colombian Raid Into Ecuador
Operación Fénix ( English: Operation Phoenix), was an attack by the Colombian military against a camp of the guerrilla group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) over the border in Sucumbíos Province, Ecuador on March 1, 2008. The raid succeeded in killing Raúl Reyes, second-in-command of FARC, as well as some two dozen individuals present in the encampment, including an Ecuadorian citizen and four Mexicans, allegedly research students invited to the camp after attending a Bolivarian congress in Quito. In the aftermath of the attack, a diplomatic crisis emerged between Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. Raid In the week before the incursion, it was revealed that the Colombian government, with assistance from the United States' FBI and DEA, had wiretapped several satellite phones that were used by FARC forces in Southern Colombia. According to an unnamed Colombian military source, an international call made by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to Raúl Reye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Phoenix (1966)
Operation Phoenix or Phenix may refer to: Military * Phoenix Program, CIA military, intelligence, and internal security program during the Vietnam War * Vela incident, alleged 1979 Israeli-South African nuclear test that was supposedly codenamed "Operation Phenix" * Project Phoenix (South Africa), SANDF project to revitialise the Reserve Force * Operation Phoenix (South Africa), South African response to mass SWAPO infiltration of South-West Africa * 2008 Colombian raid into Ecuador, codenamed Operación Fénix (Operation Phoenix) * Operation Phoenix (1966), Vietnam War military operation, February 1966 in Biên Hòa Province * Operation Phoenix (1995), Croatian Army defence of Slavonia during Operation Storm Other * Operation Phoenix (railway) Operation Phoenix was a post-World War II rehabilitation program carried out by the Victorian Railways (VR) in Australia. The program commenced in 1950 and was originally planned to take 10 years and cost £80 million pounds. (V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Allied Military Operations Of The Vietnam War (1966)
__NOTOC__ This article is a list of known military operations of the Vietnam War in 1966, conducted by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States and their allies. See also * List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1967) __NOTOC__ This article is a Lists of allied military operations of the Vietnam War, list of known military operations of the Vietnam War in 1967, conducted by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States and their allies. See ... References External links HELICOPTER Operations in VIETNAMSpecial Operations in Vietnam* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20100430173140/http://www.navy.gov.au/Naval_Operations_in_Vietnam Naval Operations in Vietnam;Media * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vietnam War, Allied Military Operations 1966 Military operations involving the United States Military operations involving Vietnam 1966 in Vietnam Operations 1966 List of allied military ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Phoenix (1995)
}) was the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence and a major factor in the outcome of the Bosnian War. It was a decisive victory for the Croatian Army (HV), which attacked across a front against the self-declared proto-state Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK), and a strategic victory for the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH). The HV was supported by the Croatian special police order of battle in 1991–95, Croatian special police advancing from the Velebit Mountain, and the ARBiH located in the Bihać pocket, in the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina's (ARSK) rear. The battle, launched to restore Croatian control of of territory, representing 18.4% of the territory it claimed, and Bosniak control of Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, Western Bosnia, was the largest European land battle since the Second World War. Operation Storm commenced at dawn on 4 August 1995 and was declared complete on the evening of 7 August, despite significa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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