26Operation Mongoose
As part of Operation Mongoose, CIA tried to kill Castro with exploding cigars and shells, poisoned wetsuits, milkshakes, a former lover; character assassination via thallium to make his beard fall out and LSD. Castro once said, “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”
27. During the 1991's Operation Desert Storm, Syria fought alongside the US and coalition forces against Iraq, supplying the 6th largest manpower contingent.
28. Operation Squabble was a World War 2 morale-boosting mission. A single Beaufort fighter plane sneaked into occupied Paris at treetop height, dropped a French flag on the Arc de Triomphe, flew down the Champs-Élysées, then strafed the German High Command before returning home unscathed.
