I was thinking of someone else, Ken.

The Bundeswehr has succumbed to an inflationary use of the word "Operationen" as well in the last decade, but a true Operation is still something above brigade level and no NCO will ever or has ever devised an order for that.

You're thinking of what I called "minor action".


The whole dissent may be about the poor current definition of "operation", though. The original operations long before the term inflation was corps-level or above; "Market Garden", "Torch", "Overlord", "Michael", ...


The fact that the term has been put in inflationary use and been applied to small unit tactical matters does not question the validity of an operational level of warfare concept (and that's what slapout did).