Yeah far be it from me to tell those who come up with things their job, but if your fearsome awe-inspiring war name sounds like something that should be followed by “You’re soaking in it” then you’re probably on the wrong track.

So I am not alone in being weirded out by this title? (And why do we have to entitle, in all senses, every military campaign? have we always done this?) Odyssey is a homecoming story, about detaching from the allure of war and its existential quandries, from the beauty of its dramatization of loss. And good old rosy-fingered dawn…. Let her keep rising hopefully for us with her sad, unimaginably old yet still loved (and mourned) Tithonius by her side in bed.
Or maybe the entitlers here are showing off just how well they know their Homer? Maybe, then, there’s hope?

I actually like the name–it has a sort of gentle springtime ring to it.
Ok, maybe not so much for all those dead as shit (and soon to be dead as shit) Libyans, but, hey, at least their friends and relatives will be able to take comfort in the fact that they didn’t get all Shocked and Awed AND blown up. That would be extra cruel.

Somehow the tale of surviving the war but wandering through a series of adventures before finally returning home years later just wouldn’t be the same if the main character were a predator drone.

Operation Tripoli Shoe Up The Ass!

Fuck yeah!

Yeah. Too bad Operation Summer’s Eve was already taken.

Maybe the war title maker-upper guy felt a little guilty about it when his “Iraqi Freedom” moniker turned out to mean freedom from actually having a life for a couple of hundred-thousand Iraqis—and wanted to go for a different vibe.

Hey, now, the war-naming guy hasn’t gotten a commission since 2003. He’s got a family to feed!

Although I saw this name and instantly thought “Porn star name”, myself. I lobby that the 2014 invasion of Yemen be named “Operation Aurora Hardrox.”

Odyssey Dawn sounds like the name of a transvestite stripper.

Operation O.D., for short. Hmmm …

Seems appropriate then

Consider this when they say we are “seeing the crack of Odyssey Dawn”

Please, please write a book. You are by far the funniest writer on The Internets.

The dawn of an odyssey ending November 6, 2012.

So I am not alone in being weirded out by this title? (And why do we have to entitle, in all senses, every military campaign?

All dumb, multimillion-dollar blockbusters need titles, so that cable news can create cool graphics and ominous theme music for our latest war du jour.

Odyssey Dawn sounds like the name of a transvestite stripper.

Not even a stripper would choose a name that cheesy.

They would have gone with Delta Dawn, it sounding a lot more strike-forcey and whatnot, but Tanya Tucker ruined that one way back in the 70′s.

“Pink Rain” sounded too gay…

“Falling limbs” might do.

What was the operation name long ago sending planes after Kadafi?

“Odyssey Dawn” just sounds like the title of a video game (Call of Duty: Odyssey Dawn, Splinter Cell: Odyssey Dawn), which it basically is to those in charge of the thing.

I would have preferred “March Madness”

You go to war with the names you have, not the names you wish you had like Awesome Death Rampage or Operation Ball Crusher.

I thought “stripper handle” as well, but a handle for one who’s working Conference Room B in the Champaign Ramada Inn for a multi-county gamer con.

Don’t be so sure about the “not stealing oil” bit. That, along with ground troops, is always the inevitable result of ramping up war. I expect Operation Odyssey Dawn to have all of the the trappings of an American War ™ and a Greek Tragedy.

Helen Reddy, I believe, not Tanya Tucker.

You know, I think there might be a certain level of appropriateness in naming these little adventures with war-pr0n type names. Here is a provisional list, to which I hope others will add; perhaps we can provide this to the Pentagon as a public service.

Gritty Santorum
Double Wetsuit
Sphincter Blast
Rusty Trombone Bugle
Wang Zipper

Surely some of the other commenters here can do better.

Yemen and Bahrain won’t happen as those folks are (like Egypt’s rulers) somewhat dependent on the good opinion of the outside world, having tourism industries and racing events and all that. Gaddafi until recently didn’t even allow foreign news crews into Libya except under special, stage-managed circumstances; this allowed him to be a bit more forceful than Bahrain or Yemen, much less Egypt, in trying to stop the Arab Spring.

Excellent names.

Here are a few other suggestions:

Operation Dry Powder Keeper

Operation Vorpal Sword Bandersnatch

Operation “What Is Best in Life?”

Operation Modest Conqueror

Operation “We’re Fucking Broke, but What the Hell”

Operation Siegfried Nibelungen

Operation El Alamein II, Desert Rat Watchamakallit

Operation Barbarossa Wannabee

Did you have to be so clever right when I was trying to drink coffee?

I think I can clean up the keyboard, but my pajamas will recall that remark forever…

Operation Stripper Handle is good.

It looks like they used the actual name generation system the military uses for operational names, instead of making up cool names for political purposes as Bushco and his predecessors were wont to do.
The process goes something like this:
Run a computer program that spits out a noun, verb, or adverb, and the commander of the operation chooses a word that (more or less) goes with it. The idea being that the exact nature of the operation or the forces used might be compromised by a created name, which is why you never see “Operation 36th Infantry Brigade coming to seize three hills and the nearby road junctions in the Very Important Valley.”
Having a fracked up name that doesn’t seem to make sense is how it is supposed to be done.
But yeah, Operation Kick Ass would be pretty, well, kick ass.

What was the operation name long ago sending planes after Kadafi?

Operation El Dorado Canyon

Why run up the deficit by creating a new operational name when OIL (Operation Iraqi Liberation/Operation Incinerate Libya) can be recycled? Recycling helps save the planet while we blow the shit out of stuff.

The original OIL worked super awesome. I don’t see how the next OIL could be any less successful.

If not OIL, then maybe Operation Jolly Dong or (in honor of The House Speaker) A Boner Orange.

Dawn detergent was used to remove oil from animals after the BP oil spill. So Operation Odyssey Dawn is clearly about the travails needed to remove oil from Libya

The beginning of a ten year trip that will end after losing our stalwart crew twice, and requiring, on our return, the ousting of the pseudo warriors who have been stripping our home while we were away.

Very predictive, or repredictive, if the past 9 years have been any guide.

Operation Uranus Hertz.

No, I said, “who ruined it…” Or maybe you never heard the Tanya Tucker version.

Run a computer program that spits out a noun, verb, or adverb

So, they’ve upgraded the Rudy Giuliani to v2.0?

We’re soaking in it.

I think they scrapped that code and started over, because when they ran it, all they ever got was
Operation 9/11dawn
Operation 9/11vengeance
Operation 9/11pre-owned cars

It’s the appropriate name for an invasion that’s supposed to stop that not-so-fresh feeling.