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"Wolong 卧龙" (Chinese, "Crouching Dragon") – Zhuge Liang, politician, military strategist, writer, engineer and inventor during the late Eastern Han dynasty, and Imperial Chancellor and regent of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period, for his ambition and great potential "Wooch" – Kendall J. Fielder, U.S. Army intelligence officer [101]
The origin of the nickname is noted where possible. In some cases, the nickname was officially adopted by the division in question; this is indicated along with date of adoption (where known). Official status might also be inferred by the presence of the nickname on official distinctive unit insignia or in official military source materials.
Operation Eagle's Summit (Oqab Tsuka in Pashto) – A military operation conducted by International Security Assistance Force and Afghan National Army troops, with the objective of transporting a 220-tonne turbine to the Kajaki Dam in Helmand Province through territory controlled by Taliban insurgents. 2008.
List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.
Polish military leader Kouji Takanohara Kouji Hanada Sumo Wrestler Kuba Jakub Błaszczykowski: Polish footballer Lawina Tadeusz Komorowski: Polish military leader La Pasionaria Dolores Ibárruri: Former leader of the Communist Party of Spain Le Corbusier: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret Swiss-French architect Leclerc Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
AMTRUNK: A CIA plan by New York Times journalist Tad Szulc initiated in February 1963, also called the "Leonardo Plan", that was "an attempt to find disgruntled military officials in Cuba who might be willing to recruit higher military officials in a plot to overthrow Castro", [27] as well as to overthrow the Cuban government "by means of a ...
March 2023 edition cover page of the Multi-Service Brevity Codes. Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words.
A code name, codename, call sign, or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage.