Operation Observant Compass

Operation Observant Compass
	Part of Lord's Resistance Army insurgency and war on terror
	; U.S. Marine Sgt. Joseph Bergeron, a task force combat engineer, explains combat marksmanship tactics to a group of Ugandan soldiers.
Date	October 2011 – April 2017 (5 years and 5 months)
Location	Uganda, with spillovers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan & the Central African Republic.
Status	American victory Founder and leader of the LRA Joseph Kony goes into hiding; Senior LRA commander Dominic Ongwen surrenders to American forces in the Central African Republic and is tried at the Hague; Majority of LRA installations and encampments located in South Sudan and Uganda abandoned and dismantled; Small scale LRA activity continues in eastern DR Congo, and the Central African Republic;
Belligerents
United States U.S. Army; U.S. Marine Corps; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Navy; U.S. Africa Command; Uganda; Democratic Republic of the Congo; South Sudan; Central African Republic	Lord's Resistance Army
Commanders and leaders
Barack Obama; Donald Trump; Robert Gates; Leon Panetta; Chuck Hagel; Ash Carter; Jim Mattis; Yoweri Museveni; Joseph Kabila; Salva Kiir; François Bozizé; Michel Djotodia; Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet; Catherine Samba-Panza; Nicolas Tiangaye ; Faustin-Archange Touadéra	Joseph Kony
Strength
~100 U.S. military advisors; Various regional forces	~200-400 LRA fighters

Operation Observant Compass was a multinational military operation conducted from October 2011 to April 2017, aimed at combating the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and its leader Joseph Kony in Central Africa. The operation was primarily a United States-led advisory mission that supported regional African forces in their efforts to capture or neutralize LRA leadership and reduce the group's capacity to conduct attacks against civilian populations. It was overseen by United States Africa Command.