The Time A NATO Country Was Invaded and NATO Did Nothing

The invasion of Goa

Grant Piper
5 min readFeb 7

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Annexation of Goa. In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Goa

On December 17th, 1961, after weeks of military build-up, a column of Indian tanks and motorized infantry rolled across the border of Goa. Goa was a Portuguese territory that was administered directly as a part of Portugal itself. Talks broke down after Portugal refused to cede control of their ancient possessions to India. Instead…

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