Operation Iron Hammer

Operation Iron Hammer may refer to:

  • Operation Eisenhammer (Iron Hammer), a planned military operation in World War II
  • Operation Iron Hammer (Iraq 2003), a military operation of the multinational force during the Iraq War
  • Operation Iron Hammer (Iraq 2005), a joint U.S.–Iraqi military operation during the subsequent insurgency

Famous quotes containing the words operation, iron and/or hammer:

    “It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “When Sheba was his lass,
    When she the iron wrought, or
    When from the smithy fire
    It shuddered in the water:
    Harshness of their desire
    That made them stretch and yawn....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in
    a lordly dish.
    She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s
    hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sis’e-ra, she smote off his
    head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 25–26)