Operation:IRONY

It has been reported on Wikipedia that Operation names are designed to obscure or misrepresent the nature of the mission (CIA cryptonyms and edit), but this is quite patently nonsense. Operation names are designed to be a glowing banner of the intentions of the US Army, and so that the generals involved don't forget which part of the world they are taking over or just knocking down so that it won't get back up to bother them for a while.

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Just a few examples:

• The mission to harass coastal Panamanian Defense Forces, to wear them down with false reports of invasion until they grew tired of responding, and/or to provoke them into attacking : Operation Sand Flea (WP)
• The mission to apprehend the former CIA asset Manuel Antonio Noriega, who collaborated with the US to smuggle cocaine into the US : Nifty Package (WP). Not to be confused with the tamales found at his house that were initially reported as being packages of cocaine...Or is it?
• PBHISTORY (WP), the operation to, at worst, inspire widespread reporting implying that the democratically elected Guatemalan government overthrown in 1954 had significant ties with the USSR, but with the ostensible aim of finding such ties, rewrote Guatemalan history.
• "Enduring Freedom (WP)" Not, in this case, easy, but it should only be a little while longer. Only a little while, that is, unless the Operation's earlier name, "Infinite Justice" is true. Maybe that was giving too much away, with occupation duration having become a political issue
• Truth is stranger than fiction: "Just Cause (WP)". Try an apostrophe just before the 'Cause', making it short for, "Because We Want To".

Fictional representations of Operation names have either satirized them on purpose, or by imitating them without regard to their inherent flaws, satirized them by accident. With a purpose, from Doonesbury: "Operation Frequent Manhood" And haplessly, from a video game": "Fires of Freedom". To save the country, we had to burn it down. Turns out, some parts of Iraq actually were burned to the ground. Maybe the army were saving them from having to live in "mud huts" by destroying them. Again, a video game: Propaganda Due (P2)