Would America Back India in a War?

[Thəorətic Muslim]

I hope you know Pak's nuclear policy, Pak says it will deploy tac nukes against India if India attempts economic strangling of Pakistan, or creates domestic destabilization.

And yet Pakistan did nothing after Mumbai.

 

[Levina]

And yet Pakistan did nothing after Mumbai.

Or may be we did not let 'em do anything.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

Or may be we did not let 'em do anything.

Pakistan couldn't, India didn't let them same thing.

India had the global sympathy, it could have bombed the country military bases, training camps etc. But India got the better end of it by just letting the International Community handle Mumbai.

Look into the statuses of India in international organizations, fdi, and Pakistan's decline in the same. India's stock grew after Mumbai thanks in part to doing no military action. The I.C. punished Pakistan.

I think, we're saying the same thing.

 

[I M Sikander]

And yet Pakistan did nothing after Mumbai.

Nothing such needed after mumbai attack, as Indians did nothing except lip service.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

Nothing such needed after mumbai attack, as Indians did nothing except lip service.

Read Post #78. And do some research.

 

[I M Sikander]

Read Post #78. And do some research.

You better do your home work.
The Indian response was nothing but some Hot and cold statements to satisfy their people.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

You better do your home work.
The Indian response was nothing but some Hot and cold statements to satisfy their people.

And what was the response of the International Community? Look at what Pakistan got after Mumbai via via International Organizations and it's status in the International Community.

 

[Bang Galore]

US promised India help if China attacked during 1971 Indo-Pak war

NEW DELHI: Despite its intense animosity towards India during the 1971 war, the US promised New Delhi "all out" support in case China carried out any unprovoked attack on India, recently declassified documents reveal 40 years after the historic war that created Bangladesh.

The revelations add fresh twist to the narrative of the Indo-Pak war of 1971. Based on a set of freshly declassified documents of the ministry of external affairs, TOI had in early November reported that the US hostility towards India during the 1971 war was far beyond what was publicly known. And that the US had probably also prepared a few Marine battalions for operations against the Indian military.

Communications of the Indian embassy in Washington and of the government in New Delhi show that US offered "all out" help if China were to enter the Indo-Pak standoff to favour its all-weather friend.


After a meeting with Henry Kissinger, then adviser to President Richard Nixon, on August 25, 1971, Indian ambassador to the US L K Jha reported to New Delhi, "He said that in a 1962 type of situation, US will not hesitate to give all out help to India against China, and there is no change of position on this." Kissinger was referring to the military conflict between India and China in 1962 in which India was humiliated.

A few weeks before this meeting, during a visit to New Delhi, Kissinger told then defence minister Jagjivan Ram, "I might tell you that we would take a very grave view of any Chinese move against India."

Ambassador Jha had spent three hours with Kissinger in San Clemente White House, the vacation home of Nixon, on August 25, as tension mounted in South Asia. They discussed details of issues that could crop up in an upcoming meeting between then PM Indira Gandhi and Nixon.

But "in this one (letter to foreign secretary T N Kaul), I am dealing with one specific point relating to the US attitude in the event of China joining on the side of Pakistan in a conflict with us", the ambassador wrote. Discussions with Kissinger on possible Chinese aggression were prompted by queries from New Delhi, the letter shows. New Delhi was worried that China could open a second front against India, even as it fought Pakistan. Such a collaboration between China and Pakistan still remains a worry for the Indian security establishment.

"Then I asked that in order to be quite clear and free from any ambiguity or doubt, I would welcome a fuller formulation from him of the US position in case we are involved in any kind of a conflict with China." In response, Kissinger offered "all out" help in case of a 1962 type situation. Then he went on to discuss other possible scenarios.

"If it was a 1965 type of Pakistani attack, then even without Chinese involvement, US would take the toughest measures against Pakistan, and if China came to its help, it would not hesitate to help us with arms, though not with men," Jha wrote. The situation Kissinger referred was an unprovoked Pakistani aggression.

"However, the chances were that if the present situation escalates into a conflict, it would be very hard to tell who is to blame. Thus, if India sent two divisions of irregulars into East Bengal and Pakistanis sent four such divisions into Kashmir, it would not be a situation in which the US could possibly help even if China threw its weight on the side of Pakistan," Kissinger told Jha, according to the ambassador's letter.

This letter from the Indian ambassador was seen by the foreign minister, the secretary to the prime minister and most other senior officials.


US promised India help if China attacked during 1971 Indo-Pak war - The Times of India

The Americans were lying. Kissinger & Nixon actually made every effort to get the Chinese to intervene, It was the timing - December when many of the passes were snowed in & a threat of the Soviet union that kept the Chinese out.

 

[desimorty]

The United Sates could provide help and so could Russia or even China. But its not something India banks on. At the end of the day India needs to fight for itself as India is FOUNDING member of the NON-Alignment movement.
That being said, what if the United States attacks India like they almost did in 1971?

 

[Oldman1]

Well, China and India would never indulge in a pointless war.
In my opinion, if at all India and China go to war then nobody (not even russia) would interfere, at the most other countries would put diplomatic and economic pressures on these countries to prevent the war from exacerbating.
I think this article is more relevant in case India and Pakistan go on a war, in which case America might not directly get involved but it might help India by sharing intelligence. But frankly, America is one country which can never be trusted, or depended on. Russia still tops the list when it comes to reliable allies, followed by Japan.

You think Russia will help India if there is a war with China? Considering that both countries want to be allies against the U.S. and its allies.