China is a South Asian country, sharing borders with 14 countries including India. Its significance lies in its rise in the region and hegemonic influence over smaller countries through loans and the Belt and Road Initiative. China and India have fought a major war in the 60s and have disputes over the Aksai Chin and LAC, and tensions over the Indo-Pacific.
If anyone wants to know the real reasons behind India China war story one has to read Marathi book ‘na sangnyajogi gost’ ‘story not to be told’ written by major general S,Pitre.
unfortunately not translated in english or hindi,
The entire history from 1890 -1965 has been illustrated with reference to Handerson -bhaght committee report .
the report is clasified but was uploded for few days on the web site of one reporter.
Translations of such works are required. This is our responsibility only…
Vishwanath ji, please go and fight the enemy on the borders and within in your pajamas and then comment here. Mera Bharat Mahan.
What the author overlooks is the massive intelligence failure and the totally incorrect advice given by the likes of BM Mullick and his IB…which actually no one speaks of, and which is happening today also.
Vishwanath ji, please go and fight the enemy on the borders and within in your pajamas and then comment here. Mera Bharat Mahan.
Indian Army continues to pass the buck and refuses to take responsibility for their own failure. Likes of General Panag are not qualified to comment on political matter let alone blame Nehru for “Himalayan Debacle”. Nehru forced China retreat and recovered every inch lost by the Army. When enemy retreats, any other nation claims victory. Only Indian Army which does not even understand warfare even with 56-year hindsight can be so clueless. Why were the soldiers redeployed from Punjab to Se La dressed in cotton pants and socks. Is it PM’s job to dress up the soldiers, comb their hair and check their weapons for ammo? Why do we need all these majors, colonels and generals? Viet Cong volunteers went to fight in pajamas, barefoot and empty handed when mighty USA invaded their homes. Our professional soldiers abandoned posts and ran away when our homes were invaded. Where the ownership by Army?
The author is misinformed or a numbskull.
I feel sorry when a retired general talks of Military being weak and Military being Impotent. I know the general and his style of grading everyone eslse inferior. The fact remains that the nation was weak in providing required logistics. The military per say was neither weak or impotent. Our top brasses like Gen Natu and Thimayya did appreciate the situation and prepared a plan to counter such eventualities but the same could not be implemented for the hatred of Nehru towards Thimayya and his incompetent Defence Minister. So , the military was not Impotent.
We all know that the debacle was squarely due to incompetency of Nehru and his team. Had Patel been the Def Min or PM, I am sure things could have been better.
Constraints will never support a war but it is the leadership which has to resolve this either way. Incompetents in political circles are the worst enemies of this nation
Who told you that Nehru hated Timmayya? Did you know that it was Nehru (and Krishna Menon) who promoted Timmayya as CoAS over 2 more seniors? Nehru government awarded Timmayya civilian award of Padam Bhushan for his service in Korea along with Krishna Menon’s Padma Vibhushan! Krishna Menon is the best Defense Minister India ever had. It was Krishna menon who defeated colonial Portuguese and liberated Goa in 1961. Sardar Patel tried to give kashmir away to Pakistan.
This article is poor and anti Nehru and without substantial research. Kindly go for proper researche papers.
Fairer account by LT General Panag which mentions constraints faced by our Republic and Pt Nehru. Unlike other historian, while putting the blame on Nehruji for the debacle, he outlines the factors which did not allow Panditji to act other wise.
Pragmatic offers made by the Chinese, including a failed visit by Chou en Lai, were rebuffed. Instead of classifying the record, a lot more should be in the public domain. That might help errors of judgment being made, as may have happened at Doklam.
That Nehru is primarily to blame is without doubt , but that the Army in Arunachal ran away from strong points like Se La, Bombidla , even Tawang with Generals and idiotic and spineless officers with no operational understanding such as Pathania , Sen ,Palit…plus Kashmiri Blue eyed Boy Biji Kaul is fully to blame is obvious . Why did this robust tomtoming Army wait till Sundari ,when in 1971 itself having defeated East Pakistan it had Soviet support to wrest areas lost and that China was extremely weak due to the GLF and GCR ? No Sir , the Army is as much to blame as Nehru . The Generals were rubbish and many like Garhwal ran away . Why did the IAF not press for engagement . The Army even today at 55 $ B annual spend is just not up to scratch . We need a complete revamp . It is a pensioners Army today chasing Kashmiri teenage thugs ,more police than Army .