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:

    “You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don’t have, at the back of your minds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “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)