On 8 December, Washington received intelligence reports that India was planning an offensive into West Pakistan. India extended her recognition of Bangladesh on 6 December. On 5 December, United States began attempts for a UN-sponsored ceasefire, which were twice vetoed by the USSR in the security council. The Indian response was a defensive military strategy in the western theatre while a massive, coordinated and decisive offensive thrust into the Eastern theatre. On 3 December, Pakistan launched Operation Chengiz Khan, marking the official initiation of hostilities of the Indo-Pak war of 1971. To the Pakistani leadership, it became clear that armed Indian intervention and secession of East Pakistan were becoming inevitable. The Indo-Soviet treaty had provided India with cover against any possible Chinese intervention in aid of Pakistan if and when the conflict precipitated. Leonid Brezhnev (right) and Indira Gandhi in Moscow during her 1976 visit to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, which was actively backing Indian actions both politically and military during the war and likewise deployed two groups of cruisers and destroyers as well as a submarine armed with nuclear warheads in response to the American military presence in the area. The second Task Force 74 was assembled from the US Navy′s Seventh Fleet that was deployed to the Bay of Bengal by the Nixon administration in December 1971, at the height of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The first Task Force 74 was a mixed Allied force of Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and United States Navy ships which operated against Japanese forces from 1943 to 1945 during the Pacific campaign. Task Force 74 was a naval task force that has existed twice. How the Russia helped India win the 1971 war How the Russia helped India win the 1971 war.
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