Examples of Operation Urgent Fury in the following topics:
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The Invasion of Grenada
- On October 25, Grenada was invaded by the combined forces of the United States and the Regional Security System (RSS) based in Barbados, in an operation codenamed Operation Urgent Fury.
- Members of the Eastern Caribbean Defense Force participate in Operation Urgent Fury.
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Policy in the Middle East
- He announced an increase to U.S. troop levels of 17,000 in February of 2009 to "stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan," an area he said had not received the "strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires."
- The operation, code-named Operation Neptune's Spear, was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
- President Barack Obama along with members of the national security team, receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear, in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011.
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The Battle of Britain
- By preventing the Luftwaffe's air superiority over UK, the British forced Adolf Hitler to postpone and eventually cancel Operation Sea Lion, a proposed amphibious and airborne invasion of Britain.
- The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
- The Blitz was only authorised when the Luftwaffe had failed to meet preconditions for a 1940 launch of Operation Sea Lion, the provisionally planned German invasion of Britain.
- By May 1941, the threat of an invasion of Britain had ended, and Hitler's attention turned to Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.