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By getting to the region first. Soviets beat the Americans to reaching the Bay of Bengal in 1971. By the time Soviets asked India to be their cannon-fodder and heat up Pakistan's western border, there already was an American armada in the Arabian Sea. This time Arabian Sea, rather than the Bay...

I am counting the USSR too, and the India-USSR combine wouldn't have worked out against the West-Pakistan combine. Unless Soviet Navy ships could fly into the Arabian sea, it just wouldn't have worked.

It was India taking on Pakistan, not Pakistan taking on India. Attack is exponentially costlier than defense. Pakistan could afford that defense. We could afford 1971. We couldn't afford to "take on" Pakistan, especially not with the Americans holding Pakis as a crucial pivot against the Soviets...

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Pakistan had a higher GDP per-capita than India; and they were the defending party, we were the invading one. Americans were firmly in bed with Pakis, using them to radicalize Afghans into fighting the Soviets. Attack costs higher than defense. Soviets just wanted a distraction for Pakis, they...

Our economy was in deep shit when the Soviets were in Afghanistan. We were in no position to wage a conquest and take PoK.