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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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Indian Army was undergoing a change at the moment in both mindset and technology (though nothing startlingly fabulous; in fact the FN rifle and 81mm Mortars elicited the excitement that the induction of F 16 might do today!!)
I believe the US was allowed free hand to plant surveillance devices in the Himalayas to monitor Tibet. The Khampas were also allowed to operate in Tibet or so the published material indicated.
As far as I know, the Indian Army was in no position to do anything worthwhile at the insistence of anybody.
I would be interested in knowing what you saw in the published arena. You could PM.
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