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:
“Waiting for the race to become official, he began to feel as if he had as much effect on the final outcome of the operation as a single piece of a jumbo jigsaw puzzle has to its predetermined final design. Only the addition of the missing fragments of the puzzle would reveal if the picture was as he guessed it would be.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not send men to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Long lion days
Start with white haze.
By midday you meet
A hammer of heat....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)