Operation Desert Scorpion

Operation Desert Scorpion may refer to:

  • Operation Desert Scorpion (Iraq 1998), an unperformed military operation in 1998.
  • Operation Desert Scorpion (Iraq 2003), a military operation launched during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Famous quotes containing the words operation and/or desert:

    “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
    —Francis Bacon (1560–1626)

    “Or were I in the wildest waste,
    Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
    The desert were a Paradise,
    If thou wert there, if thou wert there.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)