Operation Matador
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Operation Matador may refer to:
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- Operation Matador (1941)Operation Matador (1941)Operation Matador was a plan of the British Malaya Command to move forces into position to counter a Japanese amphibious attack on Malaya.In 1937 Major-General William Dobbie Officer Commanding Malaya , looked at Malaya's defences, he reported that during the monsoon season from October to March...
, a proposed plan to counter any Imperial Japanese perceived threat to British Malaya - Operation Matador (1945)Operation Matador (1945)Operation Matador was an amphibious thrust, during the Burma Campaign in January 1945, to capture the strategic port of Kyaukpyu, located at the northern tip of Ramree Island, south of Akyab across Hunter's Bay, as well as the key airfield near the port...
, a Burma campaign operation during World War II - Operation Matador (1966), a United States Army campaign of the Vietnam War
- Operation Matador (1975)Operation Matador (1975)Operation Matador was Central Intelligence Agency plan in 1975 to utilise the recovery barge Glomar Explorer to recover the remainder of the Soviet submarine K-129 left on the sea floor by the earlier Project Azorian. The operation was never conducted....
, a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency - Operation Matador (Iraq) or Battle of Al Qaim, a 2005 Iraq operation
- Operation Matador (2011), a judicialized wiretap program which the United States currently operates in conjunction with Panama's police and security
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