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Detailed explanation-1: -Operation Khukri jointly authored by General Rajpal Punia my NDA course and his daughter Damini is one such. It is another story of so many wars that the Indian Army keeps fighting, unknown to people at large.

Detailed explanation-2: -Operation Khukri is the Indian Army’s most daring breakout mission, undertaken in the year 2000 in Africa by over 200 Indian soldiers who were a part of the United Nations Peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone, sent there to help the government tackle the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group.

Detailed explanation-3: -The aim of the operation was to break the two-month-long siege laid by armed cadres of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) around two companies of 5/8th Gorkha Rifles Infantry Battalion Group of the Indian Army at Kailahun by effecting a fighting breakout and redeploying them with the main battalion at Daru.

Detailed explanation-4: -Operation Khukri/2 October 2022: Operation Khukri is a combat drama based on the Indian Army and Air Force’s Operation Khukri mission. It will be directed by Ashutosh Gowariker and released on October 2, 2022.