India-Pakistan war: India and United States are strategic allies in today’s geopolitical scenario, but there was a time when the US planned to launch a full-scale attack on India, and even deployed its nuclear submarines and the deadly B-52 bombers, on the pretext of preventing a nuclear war between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir issue.
Why US planned to attack India?
According to reports, in 1991, following the end of the Cold War, which established the United States as the only global superpower after the disintegration of the USSR, the US planned a major military assault on India on the pretext, that the Kashmir issue had brought matters between New Delhi and Islamabad to a tipping point, and it was necessary for Washington to intervene to prevent a full-scale war between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Indian and Pakistani navies were preparing for combat and had taken their respective positions in the Indian Ocean, and there were fears that both countries may fire surface-to-surface nuclear missiles at each, triggering a nuclear war. India had warned that foreign navy that enters within 600 nautical miles of the country’s maritime borders, will be attacked by Indian naval forces.
US deployed bombers, nuclear subs in Indian Ocean
According to a report by the Eurasian Times, the White House mulled options to thwart a potential Indian attack on Pakistan as American generals believed that New Delhi was likely to target Pakistan’s nuclear sites with Agni and Prithvi missiles, which would lead to a nuclear retaliation from Islamabad, resulting in a thermonuclear war in the region.
Top US generals feared that an India-Pakistan war in the Indian Ocean could devastate the global economy as India controls some of the busiest sea routes. The US deployed two aircraft carrier and as many nuclear-powered attack submarines in the Indian Ocean to thwart New Delhi’s purported attack on Pakistan.
New Delhi’s stern response
New Delhi issued a stern response as the Indian Navy launched warning attacks US submarines and aircraft carriers, a warned that real attacks would follow if the US did not retreat.
The US invoked its right to “peaceful transit”, and put its fleet of B-52 bombers in Diego Garcia on high-alert. The B-52 bombers were given coordinates to bomb India’s Agni and Prithvi missile sites, including the Veerbhu submarine base, Venduruthy Naval Air Station, ammunition storage facilities, hangars and a power plant.
When US bombers fired 190 missiles on India
Soon, US B-52 bombers, attack submarines and naval destroyers rained down missiles on Indian military assets, disabling India’s command and control system, reducing New Delhi’s ability to retaliate. A total of 190 missiles were fired by the US on India, and 117 were kept in reserve to ensure a retaliatory response, in case New Delhi decides to attack US military assets.
As per the Eurasian Times report, the simulation was part of General Dynamics’ pitch to top US generals in Washington in 1991. The US arms manufacturer was presenting its case for ‘next-generation cruise missiles’ to the Pentagon, whose range three times that of the Tomahawk, which weapons maker had developed in collaboration with McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
While the US and India are close allies today, especially as Washington needs New Delhi to counter China, it remains a fact that America once viewed India as an enemy state, and was ready to bomb the country to protect its then ally, Pakistan.
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