The abortive operations, some of them canceled almost at the last minute, had created a major problem for Eisenhower.

This car had been hijacked whilst on that call by the UVF and used in an abortive operation by the group.

Despite its weak strength, the Nederland took part in the abortive Operation Sonnenwende, and the battles near Altdamm in February 1945.

He participated in and criticized General Alexander Smyth's abortive operations against British Canada in 1812, culminating in a bloodless duel between the two.

He commanded the transport division for the Port Moresby Invasion Force in abortive Operation Mo during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

The exhausted division then took part in Generaloberst Erich von Manstein's abortive Operation Wintergewitter, the operation to relieve Stalingrad.

Army units did participate in a number of peacekeeping activities, such as the UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia in 1993, where the abortive Operation Gothic Serpent led to the deaths of eighteen American soldiers and the withdrawal of international forces.