India cannot build her own aircraft carrier because she is skipping industrial revolution onto a services based economy.
Out of all the Great Powers in the world (US, Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, etc...) they all went through the Industrial revolution phase before going onto a...
On the same token, had U.S. invaded North Vietnam, China would have theoretically intervened on North Vietnam's behalf like it did with North Korea in the first Korean War in 1950.
...and we all know that U.S. won't simply repulse the Communist invasion, the U.S. would have invaded North...