Operation Sunrise may refer to:
- Operation Sunrise (World War II), a series of secret negotiations in March 1945 in Switzerland between elements of the Nazi German SS and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services under Allen Dulles
- Operation Sunrise (Vietnam War), a 1962 test of the Strategic Hamlet Program
- Operation Sunrise (Albania), part of the 1997 rebellion in Albania
- Operation Sunrise, an 2006 approach to the hyperinflation of banknotes of Zimbabwe
- Siege of Lal Masjid, code-named Operation Sunrise, a confrontation in July 2007 between Islamic fundamentalist militants and the government of Pakistan
Famous quotes containing the words operation and/or sunrise:
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)