Multiple choice

Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

  1. Operation Cactus – launched alongside the Kutchh border to foil attempts of infiltration by Pakistan Army in 1988
  2. Operation Brasstacks – Codename of a major military exercise in Rajasthan in the year 1987
  3. Operation Surya Hope – Army’s response to the disaster ravaged Uttarakhand state in 2013

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 1 and 3

  4. All three
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Operation Cactus was the codename given to the intervention of Indian army in Maldives to prevent a coup in 1988. Operation Brasstacks was a codename of a major military exercise of the Indian Army in Rajasthan state of India, that took place in 1986 until its execution in 1987. Operation Surya Hope is the name given to the India Army's response to the humanitarian disaster in the Indian states of Uttarakhand, in mid-June 2013.

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