{{Short description|Military operation to remove personnel}} {{redirect|Exfil||Exfiltration (disambiguation)}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2024}} [[Image:Helicopter Extraction-Tal Afar Iraq.jpg|right|thumb|A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter performing an extraction of United States Army troops in Iraq]] [[File:Security Protection.jpg|thumb|Exfiltration of a member of the parliament during riots in Nairobi (2017).]]
In military tactics, '''extraction''' is the process of removing personnel or units from an area; when conducted with stealth in an area controlled by the enemy it is referred to as '''exfiltration'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf|website=TRADOC.army.mil|title=DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms 2017}}</ref>
An example of a hostile extraction was Battle of Boz Qandahari, in which U.S. Army Special Forces used donkeys to reach their extraction point while under enemy fire.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-02-09 |title=Until Dawn: Surviving the Battle of Boz Qandahari |url=https://www.army.mil/article/181848/until_dawn_surviving_the_battle_of_boz_qandahari |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=www.army.mil |language=en}}</ref> Another example of an extraction was the joint U.S. Central Intelligence Agency-Canadian government operation to smuggle six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran in 1980 in an operation later known as the Canadian Caper.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Halton |first1=David |last2=Nash |first2=Knowlton |title=Canadian Caper helps Americans escape Tehran |url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/international-politics/revolution-in-iran/canadian-caper-helps-americans-escape-tehran.html |newspaper=The National |publisher=CBC Archives |location=Toronto |date=January 29, 1980 |access-date=February 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128215029/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/international-politics/revolution-in-iran/canadian-caper-helps-americans-escape-tehran.html |archive-date=January 28, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==See also== {{Wiktionary|extraction}} * List of established military terms * Infiltration tactics * Landing zone
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