What is a covert operation?

Question

What is a covert operation?

Answer 1

If I told you, I would have to kill you.

Answer 2

undercover or secret.

Answer 3

A secret military operation.

Answer 4

A secret mission.

Answer 5

Covert is undercover, secret...when the military does a cover operation they do it without telling the public at large.

Answer 6

A covert or black ops type operation is usually classified at the TOP SECRET level but not always so you never hear about them except in general terms.  Even some of their names are classified.  A good example of one that was declassified to some extent is OPERATION EAGLE CLAW and OPERATION EVENING LIGHT.  These were two parts of the failed rescue mission for the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980 which did make the headlines and they did release some information about.  The first was actually the dash and snatch portion to get the hostages and the second was the landing and waiting part in the desert which is where things started to go wrong.  There are other aspects of these operations that probably will never be released in our life time and many other such operations that you never will hear about.    

Answer 7

Not just secret. Most military Ops are secret, otherwise the enemy migght be unsporting enough to pre-empt us.

Its the deniable part that most 'covert' ops have, if it goes t1ts up you are not there , you are not military, you are on your own.

Bit like the CIA wishes its Ops in Nam had been, or watergate, or The Bay of Pigs

Answer 8

it means it is a secret operation

Answer 9

A military operation that is done in secret. There is no warning, and is usually done at night.