Throughout that night Vikrant continued her sortie south, and our air recce covered an area to a depth of five hundred miles. There was no sign of the U.S. task force, so in the absence of any instruction from the Naval Headquarters I turned back north to rejoin my patrol area. As a postscript to this anecdote, soon after the victory of the Indian Armed Forces, one of the foreign celebrities that visited India was the renowned naval leader Admiral S. G. Gorshkov, chief of the Soviet Navy. During his visit to Bombay he came onboard Vikrant . I thought to myself, it is not easy to convert a cold war into a hot war.
Cold war is brinkmanship and only posturing.
When the chips are down, you do not play cat and mouse games but come prepared to hit hard to vanquish your adversary. The attack on the USS Cole proves him wrong. We have enemies.