Both India & China are continuing with troop rotation as they look set to maintain forward deployment through Ladakh’s bitter winter as the LAC standoff continues.
In ‘Red Fear’, Iqbal Chand Malhotra writes that former Army chief Gen Cariappa had sent a recon mission to Aksai Chin. Nehru govt never made findings public.
Central security agencies carried out a review and assessment of the state of logistical affairs in late August and early September, and pointed out several shortcomings.
Casualty evacuation from remote places in the Himalayas not connected even by rail or road is an important part of the lives of those serving in the Indian Air Force.
At the WMCC meeting held Wednesday, India and China decided on the military level meeting, as well as working towards the 5-point agenda worked out in Moscow last month.
Massive logistics have been put in place in Ladakh to house additional troops, with heated prefabricated tents, specialised clothing and high-energy rations.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has backtracked on his retirement rules. The ‘75-year rule’ was applied selectively to sideline some leaders, but it doesn’t apply to the top brass.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.
Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.
There is no such thing called “China promises peace”. China will attack India. Right now they are studying the strength (man and war machines numbers), the deployment time taken by India. Once this study is done they (china) will tell India something like this “We should live like good neighbors, Let us please defuse this. We will take our army back first”.
And they WILL take their troops back. They will wait for a month and then suddenly they will attack India with double of force that they calculated during their ‘Studies’ of previous deployment.
Remember THERE IS NO SUCH THING CALLED ‘CHINA WANTS PEACE’
Aggression and offensive movements have never succeeded in extreme cold and high altitudes where an ex-General said the survival was the issue and not fighting. If we are better prepared to survive the Chines will think twice. It is not just the equipment, the experience are motivation probably plays a bigger role.
If we not have the Menons and silent Generals another Himalayn Blunder will not happen.
Realistic column by Dr Sanjaya Baru in IE today. A new normal needs to be forged between two large neighbours that respects their core interests and accepts the reality of asymmetry. It should not require a war to come into being.
Chinese don’t have the guts to fight they were rattled by revocation of article 370 and subsequent statements made by Amit shah regarding Aksai chin they want an agreement on Aksai chin only they now india under MODI IS DIFFERENT and also they cannot take casualties
There is no such thing called “China promises peace”. China will attack India. Right now they are studying the strength (man and war machines numbers), the deployment time taken by India. Once this study is done they (china) will tell India something like this “We should live like good neighbors, Let us please defuse this. We will take our army back first”.
And they WILL take their troops back. They will wait for a month and then suddenly they will attack India with double of force that they calculated during their ‘Studies’ of previous deployment.
Remember THERE IS NO SUCH THING CALLED ‘CHINA WANTS PEACE’
Aggression and offensive movements have never succeeded in extreme cold and high altitudes where an ex-General said the survival was the issue and not fighting. If we are better prepared to survive the Chines will think twice. It is not just the equipment, the experience are motivation probably plays a bigger role.
If we not have the Menons and silent Generals another Himalayn Blunder will not happen.
Realistic column by Dr Sanjaya Baru in IE today. A new normal needs to be forged between two large neighbours that respects their core interests and accepts the reality of asymmetry. It should not require a war to come into being.
Chinese don’t have the guts to fight they were rattled by revocation of article 370 and subsequent statements made by Amit shah regarding Aksai chin they want an agreement on Aksai chin only they now india under MODI IS DIFFERENT and also they cannot take casualties