Comments by "agon noga" (@agonnoga6100) on "All wars must have an ‘end’. Lessons from Bangladesh, Ukraine to Israel" video.

@General 1971 war was won by the Bengalis after fighting a 9 months extremely bloody civil war. When Indira Gandhi ordered Gen Sam Maneckshaw to attack East Pakistan at the end of April 1971, Sam Maneckshaw offered his resignation letter stating Indian army was not prepared and the weather was not nice for an invasion therefore Indian army would lose the battle. This cowardly reply is celebrated in India. Fact is in April 1971, the West Pakistani army was small in number and didn't have any supply line connected to West Pakistan. By December of 1971, the Pakistan army had ballooned to nearly 300,000 with the addition of Razakars. There was no need for Indian army to directly attack East Pakistan but support the East Bengal Regiment, East Pakistan Rifles to attack the few West Pakistani troops in East Pakistan at the end of April 1971. If this happened lakhs and perhaps millions of lives would have been saved. The East Bengal Regiment and East Bengal Rifles along with Bengali volunteers fought the West Pakistani army for 9 extremely bloody months. By October of 1971, the border outposts had been overrun by the Mukti Bahini and West Pakistani troops were on the backfoot as they were extremely low on supplies and ammunition in a hostile country. The Indian army only entered in the last 13 days of a 9 months long civil war. In Srilanka it was another fiasco. Tamil Nadu and RAW were supplying and supporting LTTE while Indian army was fighting the LTTE in a completely unfamiliar terrain.
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