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:
“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)
““Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!” deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in
a lordly dish.
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s
hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sis’e-ra, she smote off his
head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.”
—Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 25–26)