Operation Cactus - Indian Military Intervention in the Maldives, 1988

In 1988, the Indian armed force carried out a daring intervention in the Maldives following an attempted coup by Tamil insurgents from Sri Lanka. Operation Cactus details India's most ambitious out of area intervention to date.

About the author

Sanjay Badri-Maharaj from Trinidad, received his MA and PhD from the Department of War Studies, Kings College London. His thesis was on India's Nuclear Weapons Program. He has written and published extensively, including two books - The Armageddon Factor: Nuclear Weapons in the India-Pakistan Context (2000) and Indian Nuclear Strategy: Confronting the Potential Nuclear Threat from both Pakistan and China (2018). He has served as a consultant to the Ministry of National Security in Trinidad and was a visiting International Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. This is his first instalment for Helion.

Product details

• Authors: Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781914377020
• ISBN: 978-1-914377-02-0
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 377 mm x 292 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 258 g
• Series: Asia@War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous