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The Indian Armed Forces is the overall unified military of the Republic of India encompassing the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy. The President of India serves as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. With an estimated total active force of 1,325,000 personnel, maintains the world's second largest armed forces.

Army operations

This includes a list of Army operations, both old one as well as ongoing operations, as well as humanitarian military operations:

Old operations

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Sr. No. Names of Operation Year Location Notes
1 Operation Peace 1948 Junagadh State Annexation of Junagadh[1][2]
2 Operation Polo 1948 Hyderabad State Indian armed forces ended the rule of the Nizam of Hyderabad and led to the incorporation of the princely state of Hyderabad in Southern India, into the Indian Union
3 Golden Temple Raid I 1955 Punjab To curb the Punjabi Suba Morcha.
4 Operation Vijay 1961 Goa, Daman & Diu The operation by the Military of India that led to the incorporation of Portuguese India (Goa, Daman, and Diu) into India
5 Operation Ablaze 1965 Indo-Pak Border (Western sector) Operations by the Indian Army along the western border in May-June 1965, following Pakistani attack in the Rann of Kutch. It took place between the operations in the Rann of Kutch (Operation Kabaddi, April 1965) and Operation Gibraltar by Pakistan.[3]
6 Operation Riddle 1965 Punjab sector 11 Corps offensive during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965[3]
7 Operation Nepal 1965 Sialkot sector 1 Corps offensive during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965[3]
8 Operation Steeplechase 1971 Red Corridor Combined operation against Naxalites
9 Operation Cactus Lily 1971 Indo-Pak Border Indo-Pakistani War of 1971[4]
10 Amalgamation of Sikkim 1975 Sikkim Indian Army disarmed and disbanded the Royal Guard of the Sikkimese King, after which Sikkim joined India as a State of India.
11 Operation Blue Star 1984 Punjab Cleanup operation carried out at Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab
12 Operation Woodrose 1984 Punjab
13 Operation Meghdoot 1984 Siachen Glacier, India The Siachen Glacier is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas, Ladakh at about 35.421226°N 77.109540°E, just northeast of the point NJ9842.
14 Operation Shivalik 1985 Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh (mainly Terai Regions) To capture Sikh militant leaders outside the confines of the Punjab state. 1 Sikh militant captured and detained, 38 sympathizers detained.
15 Operation Black Thunder I 1986 Punjab Cleanup operation carried out at Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab
16 Operation Pacification 1986 Punjab
17 Operation Mand 1986 Punjab To capture or kill Avatar Singh Bramha, a Sikh Militant. 1 helicopter lost, no militant detained.
18 Operation Bluebird 1987 Manipur Indian retaliation operation to the 1987 attacks on the Assam Rifles' outpost
19 Golden Temple Raid II 1987 Punjab Rumor that Sikh Militant Gurjit Singh was in the Golden Temple complex. Not found.
20 Operation Pawan 1987 Sri Lanka Operations by the Indian Peace Keeping Force to take control of Jaffna from the LTTE in late 1987 to enforce the disarmament of the LTTE as a part of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord.Operation Viraat, which occurred in 1988, after Operation Pawan, was an anti-insurgency operation launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in April 1988 in Northern Sri Lanka
21 Operation Black Thunder II 1988 Punjab Cleanup operation carried out at Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab
22 Operation Night Dominance 1990-1994 Punjab To control the landscape of Punjab at night.
23 Operation Rakshak I 1990 Punjab To curb Sikh militancy.
24 Operation Vadhi Pahar 1991 Punjab Indian Police and Army operation to kill militant member Seetal Singh Mattewal.
25 Operation Election 1992 Punjab To bring a secure election, did not succeed as militants boycotted election, data suggests only 21% of Punjab voted.
26 Golden Temple Raid III 1992 Punjab To stop commemoration of the assassins of General Shidhar Vaidya.
27 Operation Sarp Vinash 2003 Jammu and Kashmir An assault on the largest system of hideouts used by insurgents in Jammu and Kashmir in which over 60 militants were killed[5][6]
28 Operation Black Tornado 2008 Mumbai, Maharashtra Against the 2008 Mumbai Terror Attacks
29 Operation All Out 2017 for flushing out militants from specially Kashmir region of Jammu and Kashmir state of India.
30 2015 Indian counter-insurgency operation in Myanmar 2015 Myanmar Indian Army allegedly conducted hot pursuit of Naga terror outfit NSCN-Khaplang along the India-Myanmar border.
31 Operation Calm Down 2016 Jammu and Kashmir
32 Operation Randori Behak 2020 Jammu and Kashmir
33 Operation Devi Shakti 2021 Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Afghanistan To help fleeing Hindus and Sikhs from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
34 Operation Ganga 2022 Ukraine To evacuate the Indian citizens amidst the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, who had crossed over to neighboring countries

Ongoing operations

Sr. No. Name of Operation Year Location Notes
1 Operation Rakshak II 1991–Present Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab Curb militancy.
2 Operation Goodwill 1998–present Jammu and Kashmir Humanitarian tasks.
3 Operation Good Samaritan Manipur/Nagaland Humanitarian tasks.
4 Operation All Out Kashmir 2017 Jammu and Kashmir Curb militancy.[7]
5 Operation Snow Leopard 2020 Ladakh Control key heights along the LAC in eastern Ladakh.[8]

Navy operations

Air Operations

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Question of Junagadh and Independent India's First Joint Military Operation". 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ "Of Jinnah and Junagadh". 2001-10-13. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  3. ^ a b c "1965 Indo-Pak War - A Critical Appraisal". 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  4. ^ "1971 War: The tale of the unusual victory". 2013-11-29. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  5. ^ Kumar, Devesh (2003-05-24). "Operation Sarp Vinash: Army clears Hill Kaka". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  6. ^ "Operation 'Sarp Vinash': Over 60 terrorists killed". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  7. ^ Sandhu, Kamaljit (2017-11-20). "Indian Army's 'Operation All Out' in Kashmir killed 190 terrorists, but there is reason to worry". DailyO.
  8. ^ Goswami, Dev (2020-09-16). "'Op Snow Leopard': Inside story of how Army reclaimed heights in eastern Ladakh". IndiaToday.
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