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:
“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)
“Persistence can grind an iron beam down into a needle.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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)