It was the first and only offensive Attack launched Process_start solely by the United States Army in World War Military_operation I , and the attack Attack caught Getting the Germans in the process of retreating Escaping .

In the summer of 2014 , the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) launched a military offensive in northern Iraq and declared Expressing_publicly a worldwide Islamic caliphate , eliciting Causation another military response from the United States and its allies .

Operation Military_operation Stinger ( ; ) was an offensive undertaken by the forces Hostile_encounter of the SAO Krajina , an unrecognized Croatian Serb region opposing Agree_or_refuse_to_act the Republic of Croatia , against positions held by the Croatian police in the region of Banovina on 26–27 July 1991 , during the Croatian War of Independence .

The GNA and the GNC launched Military_operation a joint offensive to capture Arrest areas in and around Sirte from ISIL in May 2016 .

This offensive resulted in Causation ISIL losing control of all significant territory it previously held Hold in Libya .

Parties holding majority of seats and some holding minority of seats began Process_start to use Using boycotts or threats of boycotts which increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale division and suppressed Control relevant debates by removing them from the congressional agenda ; voting to declare Expressing_publicly sharia law and establishing a special committee to `` review all existing laws to guarantee they comply with Islamic law '' ; imposing gender segregation and compulsory hijab at Libyan universities ; and refusing to hold Hold new elections Choosing when its electoral mandate expired Process_end in January 2014 until General Khalifa Haftar launched a large-scale military offensive against the Islamists in May 2014 , code-named Operation Dignity ( ; 'Amaliyat al-Karamah ) .

The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign , also known as Operation Forager , was an offensive launched GetReady by United States forces against Imperial Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands and Palau in the Pacific Ocean between June and November 1944 during the Pacific War .

The United States offensive , under the overall command Control of Chester Nimitz , followed the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign and was intended to neutralize Control Japanese bases in the central Pacific , support Supporting the Allied drive to retake the Philippines , and provide Supply bases for a strategic bombing Attack campaign against Japan .

Beginning Process_start the offensive , United States Marine Corps and United States Army forces , with support Supporting from the United States Navy , executed landings on Saipan in June 1944 .

The offensive resulted in the loss Earnings_and_losses of the German salient and at least 15,000 casualties being inflicted Causation on the units of 6th Army in the fighting Hostile_encounter .

French operations in Artois , Champagne and Alsace from November–December 1914 , led General Joseph Joffre , Generalissimo ( Commander in Chief ) and head of Grand Quartier Général ( GQG ) , to continue the offensive in Champagne against the German southern rail supply route and to plan an offensive in Artois , against the lines supplying the German armies from the north .

French operations in Artois , Champagne and Alsace from November–December 1914 , led General Joseph Joffre , Generalissimo ( Commander in Chief ) and head of Grand Quartier Général ( GQG ) , to continue the offensive in Champagne against the German southern rail supply route and to plan an offensive in Artois , against the lines supplying the German armies from the north .

The attacks would confront Hostile_encounter the German 6th Army with a joint offensive on a front eastwards into the Douai plain , where an advance of would cut the railways supplying the German armies as far south as Reims .

The French attacked Attack Vimy Ridge and the British attacked Attack further north in the Battle of Aubers Ridge ( 9 May ) and the Battle of Festubert The battle was fought Hostile_encounter during the German offensive of the Second Battle of Ypres which the Germans ended to reinforce the Artois front .

The British offensive was suspended Process_end until 15 May , when the Battle of Festubert began and French attacks from 15 May to 15 June were concentrated on the flanks , to create jumping-off points for a second general offensive , which began on 16 June .

The British offensive was suspended Process_end until 15 May , when the Battle of Festubert began and French attacks from 15 May to 15 June were concentrated on the flanks , to create jumping-off points for a second general offensive , which began on 16 June .

On 18 June , the main offensive was stopped Process_end and local attacks were ended Process_end on 25 June .

The French offensive had advanced Cause_to_make_progress the front line about towards Vimy Ridge , on an front .

The German air offensive failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act .

The Second Battle Hostile_encounter of Fallujah—code-named Operation `` Al-Fajr '' ( Arabic : الفجر `` the dawn '' ) and Operation Phantom Fury—was a joint American , Iraqi government , and British offensive in November and December 2004 , considered the highest point of conflict in Fallujah during the Iraq War .

With most of its army in Europe fighting Hostile_encounter Napoleon , Britain adopted Choosing a defensive strategy , with offensive operations initially limited Limiting to the border and the western frontier .

When the North Vietnamese military renewed Recovering their offensive early in 1975 , the RVNAF was handicapped Hindering and many of their aircraft were either lost Earnings_and_losses or captured Conquering as formations of the People 's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) swept Scrutiny through the Central Highlands of South Vietnam .

In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany , a series of offensive operations were designed Create_artwork to seize and capture Conquering the east and west bank of the Rhine River : Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945 , and Operation Lumberjack and Operation Undertone in March 1945 .

The failure of this offensive exhausted Expend_resource Germany 's strategic reserve , leaving it ill-prepared to resist the final Allied campaigns in Europe .

on the eastern front , the soviet red army ( including the polish armed forces in the east under soviet command ) simultaneously with the western allies , had liberated most of poland and began Process_start their offensive into eastern germany in february 1945 , and by march were within striking distance of berlin .

As such , with the Western Allies making final preparations for their powerful offensive into the German heartland , victory was imminent .

The first operation , Marne Torch I began Process_start on 16 June 2007 , when Multinational Division Central launched Military_operation offensive operations against Sunni and Shi'ia extremists , as well as insurgents with Iranian influence in the city and surrounding regions of Arab Jabour in Babil province .

The campaign formed Coming_to_be the initial part of an offensive that the Allies launched Motion in the Pacific in late 1943 and resulted in Causation the Japanese being pushed Motion north from Lae to Sio on the northern coast of New Guinea over the course of a four-month period .

On 24 March 1918 , Combles was recaptured Conquering by German troops , during the retreat of the 9th Division in Operation Michael , the German spring offensive .

The offensive marked Recording an escalation of World War II , both geographically and in the formation of the Allied coalition .

Despite these Axis successes , the German offensive stalled Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in the Battle of Moscow at the end of 1941 , and the subsequent Soviet winter counteroffensive pushed Self_motion German troops back .

The Wehrmacht never again mounted Military_operation a simultaneous offensive along the entire Eastern Front .

The U.S. learned Know of the Japanese plan Arranging through signals intelligence , and sent Sending two United States Navy carrier task forces and a joint Australian-U.S. cruiser force to oppose Response the offensive .

The severe losses in carriers at Midway prevented Preventing_or_letting the Japanese from reattempting to invade Attack Port Moresby from the ocean and helped Assistance prompt Causation their ill-fated land offensive over the Kokoda Track .

during the course of the interdiction operation , an air battle Hostile_encounter known as the 18 april `` unk unk '' ( `` palm sunday massacre Killing '' ) took place Process_start , in which the german junkers ju 52 transport fleets suffered Bodily_harm heavy losses Earnings_and_losses over cape bon while evacuating Removing `` heer '' ( german army ) forces Military_operation escaping Escaping from the allied ground offensive Hostile_encounter operation `` vulcan '' .

The second action forced Motion the Japanese to retreat Escaping from their positions east of the Matanikau and hindered Preventing_or_letting Japanese preparations for their planned Arranging major offensive on the U.S. Lunga defenses set for later in October 1942 that resulted in Causation the Battle for Henderson Field .

Võ Nguyên Giáp , the military Military_operation leader of the Việt Minh , launched Process_start an offensive Attack against the French in early 1950 .

The task force launched Process_start an intelligence raid Attack , capturing Arrest prisoners who said Statement a massive Việt Minh offensive Attack was planned Arranging .

`` the airstrike on Truk Island '' ) , 17–18 February 1944 , was a massive United States Navy air and surface attack Attack on Truk Lagoon conducted Action as part of the American offensive drive Self_motion against the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) through the Central Pacific Ocean during World War II .

The French part of the offensive was intended to be strategically decisive by breaking Bodily_harm through the German defences on the Aisne front within with casualties expected to be around A preliminary attack was to be made by the French Third Army at St Quentin and the British First , Third and Fifth armies at Arras , to capture Conquering high ground and divert German reserves from the French fronts on the Aisne and in Champagne .

The main offensive was to be delivered Military_operation by the French on the Chemin des Dames ridge ( the Second Battle of the Aisne , , and ) , with a subsidiary attack by the Fourth Army ( Third Battle of Champagne , Battle of the Hills , Battle of the Hills of Champagne ) .

The final stage of the offensive was to follow the meeting of the British and French armies , having broken Bodily_harm through the German lines , then the pursuit of the defeated German armies towards the German frontier .

The main French offensive on the Aisne began Process_start on 16 April and also achieved Achieve considerable tactical success but the attempt to force Causation a strategically decisive battle on the Germans was a costly failure and by 25 April the main offensive had been suspended Process_end .

The main French offensive on the Aisne began Process_start on 16 April and also achieved Achieve considerable tactical success but the attempt to force Causation a strategically decisive battle on the Germans was a costly failure and by 25 April the main offensive had been suspended Process_end .

The British remained on the offensive for the rest of the year fighting Hostile_encounter the battles of Messines , 3rd Ypres and Cambrai .

As a result of the August 2014 events , DPR and LPR insurgents regained Recovering much of the territory they had lost Earnings_and_losses during the Ukrainian government 's preceding military offensive .

Immediately following the signing Sign_agreement of the agreement , separatist forces launched Process_start an offensive on Debaltseve and forced Ukrainian forces to withdraw Escaping from it .

while at first , kurdish militants , primarily of the democratic party Social_event of iranian kurdistan , made Earnings_and_losses some territorial gains Earnings_and_losses in the area of mahabad and ousted Change_of_leadership the iranian troops from the region , a large scale offensive in spring 1980 by the iranian revolutionary guard reversed Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the course of the conflict Violence .

1,500 British troops were involved Cause_to_be_included , supported Supporting by Danish , Estonian and Afghan forces in the pre-Christmas offensive , commencing on 7 December 2008 with a night attack on Taliban defences in a village south of the operational area .

The offensive was intended to secure the area around the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah after an increase in insurgent attacks there ( including a 300-man Taliban assault ) , as well as helping to safeguard Preserving a planned voter registration programme .