Indian Ocean operations are often hidden inside narratives of the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, and nearby land campaigns. The same problem appears in histories that compress the interwar years between much larger sections on the two world wars. The theatre connected numerous campaigns and saw far more conflict than the familiar handful of episodes suggests. Treating the Indian Ocean as a subject in its own right restores the links that disappear when those events are filed under other wars.
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Why the Indian Ocean war disappears inside other campaigns
The theatre is often treated as an appendix to the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, and nearby land campaigns even though it contained a large, connected conflict of its own.