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The British still use Operation names from a long list. Single names that are not complicated, selected at random, have given us some recent ones such as Op Banner (Northern Ireland), Op Tosca (UN in Cyprus), Op Herrick (Afghanistan), Op Telic (Iraq) and Op Corporate (Falklands).

Of course you all know that, but what you may not know is that the operation names can be re-used. They are only taken off the list if they are used for a 'big' or memorable operation.... for instance 'Market' or 'Garden' will not be used again.