{"id":39486,"date":"2019-12-15T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39486"},"modified":"2019-12-14T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:25:48","slug":"qotd-naming-military-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/12\/15\/qotd-naming-military-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Naming military actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I often note with amusement the significant differences in naming conventions for military operations between the US and the rest of the &#8220;Anglosphere&#8221;. A typical US Army operation might be &#8220;Operation Devastating Earthshatterer&#8221;, while a British or Canadian equivalent might be &#8220;Operation Broken Teaspoon&#8221; or &#8220;Operation Goalie Glove&#8221;. (I&#8217;ll pass up on the urge to attribute something mockery-tinged to French codenames &#8230; but only because Babelfish didn&#8217;t give me a useful translation for &#8220;Operation Wet Knickers&#8221; or &#8220;Operation Big Girl&#8217;s Blouse&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with a dose of belligerent overkill in your naming conventions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted on the old blog (no longer online), 2004-09-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often note with amusement the significant differences in naming conventions for military operations between the US and the rest of the &#8220;Anglosphere&#8221;. A typical US Army operation might be &#8220;Operation Devastating Earthshatterer&#8221;, while a British or Canadian equivalent might be &#8220;Operation Broken Teaspoon&#8221; or &#8220;Operation Goalie Glove&#8221;. (I&#8217;ll pass up on the urge to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,5,41,13],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-39486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-military","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-agS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53504,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions\/53504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}