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Sibling Rivalry #13 - Fourteen Days in December: The Lightning Campaign and the Fall of Dhaka
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Sibling Rivalry #13 - Fourteen Days in December: The Lightning Campaign and the Fall of Dhaka
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Pakistan’s desperate, failed preemptive air strikes on December 3, India's multi-pronged invasion of East Pakistan, the naval blockade, the collapse of Pakistan's "fortress defence" strategy, the threat of the US Seventh Fleet, and the historic surrender of 93,000 Pakistani soldiers at the Dhaka Race Course.
Includes extracts from Archival speeches by Mrs Indira Gandhi, Gen Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Bhutto.
Sources -
The Blood telegram -Gary Jonathan Bass
The origins of war in South Asia-Sumit Ganguly
Interview with History - Oriana Fallaci
Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan- His Life & Times - Stanley Wolpert
Declassified US State Department and CIA Documents
The Betrayal of East Pakistan - A.A.K. Niazi
Through the 1971 Crisis- An Eyewitness Account by a Soldier - Hakeem Arshad Qureshi
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