Operation OKRA (Iraq & Syria): Nearly 300 Australian Defence Force personnel have completed a six-month mission training around 9,000 Iraqi personnel to defeat the Daesh terrorist group as part of the broader international Building Partner Capacity mission to Iraq. The Australians were part of the third rotation of Task Group Taji, which included some 100 New Zealand Defence Force personnel. The outgoing Commander of Task Group Taji 3, Colonel Andrew Lowe, said the men and women of the Task Grou

Operation OMEGA (1950s) A little-known Cold War experiment designed to test whether major U.S. cities could survive sudden, EMP-style disruptions. Power grids, communication lines, and transportation hubs were all secretly stress-tested. The results? Never fully released… and some say the findings were far more alarming than anyone expected. #fyp #mystery #coldwarfiles #hiddenhistory #facebookpost | Sylvester Roark