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Originally Posted by Deltacamelately
Sir,
I just saw something that spoke of an US insistance to India for escalating military threat against PRC in 1964. I have posted that in another Tibet thread. My querry is...after the stunning setback that the Indian Army suffered in the 1962 debacle, was it militarily realistic on the USs part to expect India successfully make such an aggressive military threat against China without unexpected fallouts? Could the Indian Army possibly be a state of readiness just 2years later to do so?
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Delta,
I dont think VK Krishna Menon allowed the IA to make any decisive support, Our biggest trump card was Indian Airforce, and the Chinese couldnt even mount proper air-challenge since their aircraft lacked range. We lost 1962 purely on politics.