Intervention and Operation

Intervention

Intervention noun - The act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others.

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Operation and intervention are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operation" instead a noun "Intervention".

Operation noun - A specific task with which a person or group is charged.

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Intervention and operation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Intervention" instead a noun "Operation".

expensive	expensive intervention	expensive operation
special	special intervention	special operation
complete	complete intervention	complete operation
simple	simple intervention	simple operation
Other adjectives: actual, real, successful, massive, serious, little, major, military, last, international, failed, previous, strategic, soviet, surgical, large-scale.

No Sell: "UN Intervention" lets a player play a card with the opponent's event on it without the event going off - the card gets discarded and the player gets the operation points.

Source: Tabletop Game / Twilight Struggle
The current trend in Britain (and most of the Commonwealth) is to assign a random from a computer list (for example, armed intervention in Sierra Leone was called "Operation Palisser", Iraq was Operation Telic).

Source: Operation Blank
Moreover, the entry of the United States into the war after Operation Praying Mantis and the Iran Air Flight 655 incident further convinced Iran that continuation of the war could invite further American military intervention.

Source: Useful Notes / IranIraq War

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