Operation Dropshot
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Operation Dropshot was the United States Department of Defense code-name for an internal document describing a possible offensive, conventional war with the USSR in the post-WWII period more commonly known as The Cold War. The scenario was devised prior to the development of ICBMs, and even included the note that the entire plan would be invalidated if rocketry became a cheap and effective means of delivering a nuclear weapon. These documents were later declassified and published as Dropshot: The American Plan for World War III Against Russia in 1957 (ISBN 080372148X).
Operation Dropshot can also refer to the U.S. policy of dropping Special Forces behind enemy lines in North Korea - this policy was in many instances a failure when U.S. soldiers were taken captive and often killed as soon as they landed.
