Hi there Blogman and Deepak Bose, Friends, I dunno how old you both are. But I am old enough to have seen that war and still remember every day of it vividly. United States did send an aircraft carrier.China knew it and hence withdrew its troops from Tawang. If your generation does not believe in what I say, perhaps you will believe in 'Wikipedia'. Please go through this link to know the facts htt//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino_Indian_War#Ceasefire Not only that, they had sent aircraft loaded with the then modern weaponry as Indian army had only 303 guns at that time to fight with. Our defence workshops were manufacturing household utensils at that time because Nehru felt and maintained that India would not need any weaponry as it had no enemies and that China was India's 'Bhai'. And when China did attack India, Nehru wept that 'China stabbeed him in the back'! After the China war, India started manufacturing real defence equipment in those workshops.
