Operation Lal Dora: India's aborted military intervention in Mauritius
dc.contributor.author | Brewster, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Rai, Ranjit | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-26T00:38:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-03-26T00:38:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-03-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-11T08:49:58Z | |
dc.description.abstract | As India expands its strategic reach in the Indian Ocean, it will need friends that it can count on. The island state of Mauritius has long been one of India's closest allies in the region. This article discusses India's plans for a military intervention in Mauritius in 1983 to prevent a feared coup that may have threatened India's interests. A naval task force was readied, but the intervention did not proceed because of disagreements in India's leadership. Instead New Delhi facilitated a political solution to the crisis that firmly consolidated its special role. This previously undisclosed episode sheds light on India's thinking about the Indian Ocean, the alignment of India's interests with the United States, and India's military capabilities. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1479-9855 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13056 | |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | |
dc.rights | http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1479-9855/..."Pre-print or post-print allowed on institutional repository or subject-based repository after a 18 months embargo, publisher's version/PDF cannot be used, on a non-profit server" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 26/03/15) | |
dc.source | Asian Security | |
dc.title | Operation Lal Dora: India's aborted military intervention in Mauritius | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 74 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 62 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Brewster, D., Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | dhbrewster@bigpond.com | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | u4447355 | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 160600 - POLITICAL SCIENCE | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | U3488905xPUB4275 | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 9 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14799855.2012.761208 | en_AU |
local.identifier.essn | 1555-2764 | en_AU |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-84875285695 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u1005913 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | http://www.routledge.com/ | en_AU |
local.type.status | Submitted Version | en_AU |
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