"undertake an operation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to beginning a task or activity. For example, "The team will undertake an operation to save the injured animals."
"There is no point in undertaking an operation like this in a half-hearted way," the Australian foreign minister, Alexander Downer, above, said on television.
Mr Lubkivsky said Ukraine's special forces were undertaking an operation to remove the protesters, but were doing so in a way which would avoid casualties and bloodshed.
The Population Council, as a consortium partner of the USAID-sponsored Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN), undertook an operations research project in two districts of Pakistan to assess the feasibility of home administration of misoprostol for the prevention of PPH in rural Pakistan.
The FBI placed his home under constant surveillance, a move that prompted Howard to undertake an escape operation fitting for a spy.
And when we finally turned attention, it was not to redress their grievances but to undertake an army operation which can be easily called a massacre as well.
While there, they undertook a major operation, Operation BOBCAT, to prevent floods of illegal Jewish immigrants coming into Israel.
"We simply could not undertake a sustained operation anywhere in the world without the Guard and Reserves".
"If the president of the United States decides to undertake a military operation," General Franks said, "there is no doubt we will prevail".
In my research I encountered a young woman who, like Lindsay, agreed to undertake a 'sting' operation to catch the people who had employed her as a mule.
