British Secret Service confidential dossier bearing the codename for Operation Thunderball.
A military operation plan (also called a war plan before World War II) is a formal plan for military armed forces, their military organizations and units to conduct operations, as drawn up by commanders within the combat operations process in achieving objectives before or during a conflict. In the James Bond franchise there have been numerous operation plans devised by both the protagonists and antagonists, often having codenames.
List of operations and projects
| Name | Planner | Description | Outcome | Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderball | British Secret Service | Succeeded; James Bond with the aid of Domino and Felix Leiter eliminated Emilio Largo along with his henchmen | Thunderball | |
| Bedlam | British Secret Service | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | ||
| Grand Slam | Auric Goldfinger | Failure. | Goldfinger | |
| Orchid | Hugo Drax | Hugo Drax's plan to wipe out humanity from space, via a satellite system that would release an aerosol form of a poisonous orchid into the mesosphere. | Failure. Jaws turned on Drax and defected to Bond upon learning his lover would be killed as she was not part of Drax's "master race". After Drax's death, he had a near partial success due to the prior release of one satellite, which had the capability of killing hundreds of thousands of people. However, this satellite was destroyed by Holly Goodhead and James Bond. | Moonraker (film) |
| Mainstrike | Max Zorin | Project Mainstrike is an operation devised by Max Zorin which was designed to trigger a "double earthquake" by setting off about 500 tons of dynamite, which would create a micro-chip monopoly by effectively wiping out Silicon Valley. The earthquake would cause a lot of the water near San Fransisco Bay to drain into Silicon Valley causing a flood and a earthquake. | Failure. James Bond went into the mine where the explosives would be set and the mine was amazingly frantic because Max Zorin left and shot everyone coming out. Then the flood started and May Day, which was double-crossed because Zorin tried to kill her, she stopped it by getting the explosives out but, she had to hold the break so she died but saved many lives. | A View to a Kill (film) |
| Cowslip | British Secret Service | GoldenEye (novelisation) | ||
| Nightfire | Rafael Drake | A scheme involving forcefully achieving globalisation - a global corporate takeover by Phoenix International. National boundaries would be eradicated, in their place continent-wide regions of agriculture, industry, energy production and research. Governments would be replaced with a single board of directors and resistance would be crushed by threat of ballistic missiles mounted in Drake's island grottos. His unassailable command centre would be the U.S. Space Defense Platform. | Failure | Nightfire |