United Kingdom military operations in Europe

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United Kingdom military operations in Europe encompass the various campaigns, interventions, and peacekeeping missions conducted by British armed forces across the European continent, particularly during and after the World Wars and the Cold War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aspect of United Kingdom military history
military operations
hasAllianceContext North Atlantic Treaty Organization
linked to: NATO

United Nations peacekeeping
Western European Union
hasLegalBasis NATO treaty obligations
United Nations Security Council resolutions
bilateral defence agreements with European states
hasLocation Balkans
Baltic Sea region
Eastern Europe
Europe
Mediterranean region
North Atlantic
linked to: North Atlantic area

Western Europe
hasNotableOperation Allied invasion of Sicily
Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union
Baltic Air Policing missions
linked to: Baltic Air Policing

Battle of Britain
Battle of France (1940)
linked to: Battle of France

Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of the Somme
Berlin Airlift
Bosnian War peacekeeping operations
British Army of the Rhine deployment
British Expeditionary Force in World War I
D-Day landings in Normandy
linked to: D-Day

Dunkirk evacuation
linked to: Battle of Dunkirk

Enhanced Forward Presence in Eastern Europe
IFOR deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Italian campaign (World War II)
linked to: Italian campaign

KFOR deployment in Kosovo
NATO exercises in West Germany
North African campaign support to European theatre
Northwest Europe campaign 1944–1945
Norwegian campaign (1940)
Operation Allied Force support
Operation Cabrit in Estonia, Poland, and Latvia
Operation Elgin in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Operation Grapple in the Balkans
Operation Interflex in the United Kingdom training Ukrainian forces
Operation Orbital in Ukraine
Operation Palliser in Sierra Leone is not in Europe
Operation Resolute in the Adriatic Sea
Operation Veritas is in Afghanistan and not in Europe
RAF Quick Reaction Alert missions in European airspace
Royal Navy participation in Standing NATO Maritime Groups
Royal Navy presence in the Mediterranean during the Suez Crisis
SFOR deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Strategic bombing of Germany
UK contribution to EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina
UK participation in OSCE monitoring missions in Eastern Europe
hasObjective collective defence of Europe
deterrence of aggression
protection of sea lines of communication
stabilisation of post-conflict regions
support of allied governments
hasParticipant British Army
Royal Air Force
Royal Navy
hasPeriod 21st century
Cold War
First World War
linked to: World War I

Second World War
linked to: World War II

post–Cold War era
involves air campaigns
coalition warfare
expeditionary warfare
humanitarian interventions
land campaigns
naval blockades
peacekeeping operations

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Operation Banner partOf United Kingdom military operations in Europe
15th (Scottish) Infantry Division service British Army in Northwest Europe
linked to: United Kingdom military operations in Europe