Taking delivery takes time...Then why was India dumb to put them on forward basis? Be brave and take it as a failure.
LOL. Because India was not planning a war! It was Ayub, misled by - who else? - Bhutto who was, and the end result saddened him and broke his dictatorship. So there was no question of putting in MiGs to meet the Pakistani attacks, because no one in India thought that Pakistan wanted to fight a war.
If India missed a trick... Blame it on Pakistan as it was her fault.
No tricks. Pakistan decided to join, to achieve a parity that was never there, but was created by sycophantic behaviour. You are not old enough to remember, so ask your elders; the slogan was that three A's ruled Pakistan: Allah, Army and Amrika. That's all that you were, appendages.
Another failure on part of India. Shows immaturity of Indian Air Force.
Failure?
Not to sell out is a failure?
Thank Heavens for that. Thank Heavens that we did not go onto our knees to try and fool the world that we were what we could never be.
India was not in a bargaining position on SEATO and CENTO as it was very clear that once India became friends with USSR it was heading towards Communism as perceived by the West. The only reason USA did not go to war with India was it was still under the influence of British Administration.
You are thunderously ignorant. Pakistan joined SEATO and CENTO decades before India signed a mutual defensive pact with Russia, in 1971. Until then, the US
- Asked India to take a seat in the UN: India refused;
- Sent arms and ammunition to India in 1962, and asked in return that she join the pacts; India refused;
- Bent over backwards to entice India into her camp; India refused;
- Spent millions on arming Pakistan, against written guarantees that those arms and ammunition would not be misused, and watched Pakistan do exactly what she had committed not to do.
If you were there then you should have known this fact.
Now go and take a hike.
Of course. When you have nothing to say, that is the best answer.
The fact is that you still make aggressive moves, depending on the reluctance of India to go to war and destroy an economy growing at 7%. Not surprising, since you have nothing to lose if hostilities break out; your reputation couldn't possibly sink lower. We have a lot to lose, so we have always been reluctant sword-rattlers. And you think that you are brave. You aren't; you just have nothing else to do. On the economics front, your lottery ticket is the CPEC. If it fails, what do you do for an encore?