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==Subordinate operations== Operation Enduring Freedom referred to the U.S.-led combat mission in Afghanistan.<ref name=Philipps>{{cite news |last1=Philipps |first1=Dave |title=Mission Ends in Afghanistan, but Sacrifices Are Not Over for U.S. Soldiers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/us/mission-ends-but-sacrifices-are-not-over-for-us-soldiers.html?mcubz=1&_r=0 |access-date=17 August 2017 |url-access=subscription |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=31 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818012206/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/us/mission-ends-but-sacrifices-are-not-over-for-us-soldiers.html?mcubz=1&_r=0 |archive-date=18 August 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Dempsey>{{cite news |last1=Dempsey |first1=Judy |title=NATO to add to Afghanistan troops |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/world/asia/nato-to-add-to-afghanistan-troops.html?mcubz=1 |access-date=17 August 2017 |url-access=subscription |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=20 July 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818012630/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/world/asia/nato-to-add-to-afghanistan-troops.html?mcubz=1 |archive-date=18 August 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> The codename was also used for [[counterterrorism|counter-terrorism]] operations in other countries targeting [[Al Qaeda]] and remnants of the [[Taliban]], such as [[Operation Enduring Freedom β Philippines|OEF-Philippines]], [[Operation Enduring Freedom β Trans Sahara|OEF-Trans Sahara]], and possibly in Georgia's [[Pankisi Gorge]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Spencer C. Tucker|title=The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts [5 volumes]: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U05OvsOPeKMC&pg=PA415|date=8 October 2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-948-1|page=415|access-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101094429/https://books.google.com/books?id=U05OvsOPeKMC&pg=PA415|archive-date=1 January 2016|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite book|author1=Raymond Monsour Scurfield|author2=Katherine Theresa Platoni|title=War Trauma and Its Wake: Expanding the Circle of Healing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T--SxPDKjh4C&pg=PA268|date=10 September 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-45788-3|page=268|access-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611044449/https://books.google.com/books?id=T--SxPDKjh4C&pg=PA268|archive-date=11 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> primarily through government funding vehicles.<ref name="HELPING-GEORGIA"/><ref name="Lamothe"/> * [[War in Afghanistan (2001β2021)|Operation Enduring Freedom]] (OEF), 7 October 2001β31 December 2014. Succeeded by Operation Freedom's Sentinel.<ref name=OEFover>{{Cite web|title=Obama, Hagel Mark End of Operation Enduring Freedom|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/id/123887/|work=Defense|publisher=United States Department of Defense|author=United States Department of Defense|location=United States of America|date=December 2014|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314000513/http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=123887|archive-date=14 March 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[Operation Enduring Freedom β Philippines]] (OEF-P, formerly Operation Freedom Eagle), 15 January 2002 β 24 February 2015<ref>{{citation|last1=Robinson|first1=Linda|last2=Johnston|first2=Patrick B.|last3=Oak|first3=Gillian S.|title=U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Philippines, 2001β2014|url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1200/RR1236/RAND_RR1236.pdf|isbn=978-0-8330-9210-6|publisher=RAND Corporation|access-date=17 August 2017|location=Santa Monica, California|date=6 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819170049/https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1200/RR1236/RAND_RR1236.pdf|archive-date=19 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Turse|first1=Nick|title=US Special Operations Forces Are in More Countries Than You Can Imagine|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/us-special-forces-are-operating-more-countries-you-can-imagine/|access-date=17 August 2017|work=The Nation|date=20 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818045939/https://www.thenation.com/article/us-special-forces-are-operating-more-countries-you-can-imagine/|archive-date=18 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[Operation Enduring Freedom β Horn of Africa]] (OEF-HOA) * [[Operation Juniper Shield]], formerly known as Operation Enduring Freedom β Trans Sahara (OEF-TS; see also [[Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002βpresent)|Insurgency in the Maghreb]]) * [[Operation Enduring Freedom β Caribbean and Central America]] (OEF-CCA)<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.dod.gov/dodgc/olc/docs/testStavridis080305.pdf |title=Statement of Admiral James G. Stavridis, United States Navy Commander, United States Southern Command Before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense |department=United States Southern Command|date=5 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101094429/http://www.dod.gov/dodgc/olc/docs/testStavridis080305.pdf|archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref> * [[Transit Center at Manas#Operation Enduring Freedom|Operation Enduring Freedom β Kyrgyzstan]], 18 December 2001 β 3 June 2014<ref name=Bolger>{{cite book|last1=Bolger|first1=Daniel P.|author-link=Daniel P. Bolger|title=Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars|date=2014|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=9780544370487|page=xiii, 415|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keQBBQAAQBAJ&q=Operation%20Enduring%20Freedom%20%E2%80%93%20Caribbean%20and%20Central%20America%20(OEF-CCA)&pg=PR13}}</ref>
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