Operation Swarmer? Who dreams up these names

[liberal N proud]

What the hell does "Swarmer" imply?

[Chico Man]

1. That they are a bunch of assholes

[ContraBass Black]

2. Lots of soldiers in a massive display.

Completely overrunning the enemy.

[rzemanfl]

3. I have always maintained that the worse a war is going the more

outrageous the code names for operations become.

[Fovea]

4. Swarm is not a word a strategist would use

as it suggests intolerable levels of Brownian motion.

[liberal N proud]

6. But the use "Swarmer" does that mean they are Intolerabler?

At least they could use a real word.
Websters use the word swarm when you search for swarmer:

swarm
One entry found for swarm.

Main Entry: 2swarm
Function: verb
intransitive senses
1 : to form and depart from a hive in a swarm
2 a : to move or assemble in a crowd : THRONG b : to hover about in the manner of a bee in a swarm
3 : to contain a swarm : TEEM
transitive senses
1 : to fill with a swarm
2 : to beset or surround in a swarm <players swarming the quarterback>
- swarm·er noun

[doublethink]

5. Another reply I just posted to same the question ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=681139&mesg_id=681180 .... got me?

[uppityperson]

7. I keep reading "Smarmer"

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. i think the names used to be computer generated until

they were propagandized.