About the Book: 1965 A Western Sunrise
In 1965, while India was still licking its wounds from the disastrous war
against the Chinese in 1962, the belligerent Pakistanis decided to wrest Kashmir
from India. To test the waters, they launched their first military probes into
the Rann of Kutch between February and May; India responded. By the end of July,
India gave in to the dictates of the UN and stood down the troops it had
mobilized in the Punjab and Kargil sectors in response to the Rann of Kutch
skirmishes. Pakistan then launched its masterstroke— Operation Gibraltar—in
Kashmir in August. Nearly 12, 000 trained