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This article reveals Operation Lal Dora, a planned military intervention by India in Mauritius to avert a threatened coup against its Hindu-led government in 1983. The note looks at political intrigue between India, the Soviet Union and the United States in Mauritius in the early 1980s. It provides a detailed discussion of India’s military planning of a major amphibious operation and debates between India’s civil and military leadership about India’s capacity to undertake it.
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This page is a summary of: OperationLal Dora: India's Aborted Military Intervention in Mauritius, Asian Security, January 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2012.761208.
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