Operation Hammer

Operation Hammer may refer to:

  • Operation Hammer (1969), Australian military operation during the Vietnam War fought around the village of Binh Ba between 6–8 June 1969
  • Operation Hammer (1987), a Los Angeles Police Department CRASH initiative that began in April 1987
  • Operation Hammer (1997), a Turkish Armed Forces operation in northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers Party
  • Operation Hammer (Afghanistan), a 2007 Coalition operation during the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

Famous quotes containing the words operation and/or hammer:

    “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
    —Francis Bacon (1560–1626)

    “You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)