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Do you really believe that.

Best I can tell in the 1971 Air War Indian claims that both Indian and Pakistan shot down 19 planes each,,,,Indias claims are that they lost 56 and Pakistan 63 1971 India-Pakistan War: The Air War - Case West independent observers estimate the air to air losses of India were three times that...

Any thing could have turned into a full scale war back then,,,,but the 1971 conflict between India and Pakistan hardly made the news in the USA...... Time Magazine pretty well covers what was going on from US thinking. India Pakistan 1971 War as covered by Time

I expect thats the reason the USA backed off, not fear of USSR and certainly not any fear of India. Here is what was going on in the US at that time according to history.. 1971 Events of 1971, from Wikipedia Payoff to the Vice President The Attica, New York, Prison Revolt Plan of Attica...

I could agree with that if thats the way it really was.

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I am sure we were scared to death of India and turned tail and ran, your air force could not even handle Pakistan and you were five times their size. I am real sure the USA was scared to death.

if I remember right it was a unarmed cessana and was on the ground, Claim is exgaggerated like the number of planes India shot down in the air war. Of course Indias military was five times the size of Pakistan and they had the support of the entire USSR next door.

I dont think the USA had any intention of getting into a war with India in 71 and I allways thought India was a stooge of the Russians. Indo-Pak war 1971-The truth of Longewala - YouTube General (Retd.) Chuck Yeager (USAF) , Book: Yeager, the Autobiography) " The Pakistanis whipped their...