What was Operation Cactus & how did India help Maldives thwart a coup

#Operationcactus
Former DGMO Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd), who was part of Operation Cactus, explains how it changed the tactics for Indian military, how India helped Maldives thwart a coup in 1988 & what it was all about, in his interaction with ThePrint’s Deputy Editor Snehesh Alex Philip.
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[@prasnair72]

I remember reading that TIME magazine as the Indian army, navy and air force started asserting itself. Rajiv Gandhi had started signing peace accords in the North East, started talks with Sri Lanka and this operation was a classic story. A titbit from a story is that Maldivians did not know who the Indians were till the Sikh officer saluted the president.

[@ibrahimhaneef6684]

The day India saved my country from the enemies.

[@ibrahimhaneef6684]

@Father-Of-Allah I have no idea. It's because I'm not a diplomat, I'm a researcher on Terrorism & elite operations. Even if they go on any operation, it will never bother me. It's because no one hires me on any tactical operation

[@RT-py4ub]

Kindly improve voice quality

[@rajnishin]

Very interesting to know this part of our history. Thanks a lot!

[@vijaychowgule5264]

No one had a better view than you of both the MACRO and MICRO picture and as the bridge between planning and execution. Hail the Paratroopers 🙏🙏

[@sundarsundar3157]

The auto English sub-titles confirm my impression on the importance of a high speed stenographer or captioning specialist in these kind of things.

[@aayushchhajer1208]

Why are you only talking about this now? Anyway atleast you are talking about it in the channel now.

[@conflictvideo3014]

Please get a decent mic. They're not that expensive and you guys are news media who atleast need to have good mic.

[@sritejakallepu890]

Please improve your audio quality.

[@aniruddhadebnath4621]

Jai hind

[@srinivass1295]

The wire is in trouble and next goes to print soon. hahahha..

[@Red.bulldozer3]

Despite india helped to thwart coup in maldives, it is heavily influenced by chinese funds.

[@VikasSRao]

Bollywood, sun rahe ho?😉

[@johnyboy150409]

Sun lia and movie bhi a rahi hai next year. Hero salman khan😂

[@okee7]

Rajiv Gandhi era!

[@ibrahimhaneef6684]

Exactly.