Military Digest: 1965 Indo-Pak war and US concerns over Chinese intervention in conflict

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It is that time of the year when we remember the Pakistani aggression in Jammu and Kashmir in Operation Gibraltar and the Indian riposte in Punjab in 1965. The Indian response in September 1965 by opening fronts in Punjab caught Pakistan Army by surprise as they had been expecting that India will restrict its response to the state of Jammu and Kashmir where the Pakistani Army had launched a conventional offensive along with large groups of infiltrators. Research in US archives shows that the Americans were very worried about any Chinese intervention in the conflict on the side of Pakistan....