Ladakh Flash Point

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Maxef208

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It's only because Modi presents himself as this kind hearted grandpa who won't hurt a fly and is just looking after his kids, which is why it's so weird whenever they put him in a more violent light, like that recent propaganda cartoon where he's murdering folks while still smiling.


I seriously doubt this. I saw a video of Indian soldiers the other day on twitter showing how frozen their food was the moment it got to them. It was all fresh food, not manufactured rations or preserved ready to eat food of any sort. A carton of juice could resist a pickaxe, eggs were like rocks, and could be smashed apart, powdered. I suppose they can always use heaters of some sort to unfreeze the food, but seems like prep time is going to be increased indefinitely. Of course the twitter trolls are already up and about claiming Chinese soldiers are starving and eating snow while their guys are having banquets.
I want to correct myself. The first video is from last year, I originally saw the video on twitter and assumed it was recent and had to find it again. Let's see if conditions have actually improved for the IA as claimed in the tweet below.
 

silentlurker

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Read the post carefully please, this is not what I stated. I pointed out it does not take weeks to fly from Russia to India avoiding Chinese and Pakistan airspace.
 

plawolf

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Now is a terrible time to use this strategy. They should wait till the middle of January when they are literally frozen on the hills and missing their families.

By then the Indian troops might not be able to pull out even if they wanted to if they snows hit hard.

I bet the Indians would find a way to blame the Chinese if their troops froze/starved to death on the mountains because the Indians themselves could not supply them.

Fabric tents would keep the wind off, that’s about all, as they would not be able to retain much if any heat in the kinds of extremes they will endure if forced to spend all winter camped out there. There is a good reason no one goes camping in the winter even at ground level.

Mountaineers use tents out of necessity. But they are only out on the mountains for weeks, not months, and would all be supplemented by the best survival gear money can buy. There is a reason it costs tens to hundreds of thousands to climb Everest. Your Indian soldier is not going to have anything like that level of gear; they will be staying still and not walking, which would help to keep mountaineers warm during the day; they will be on site for the whole winter, so that’s much longer they will be burning their bodily reserves; and they face the real possibility of having their supply lines cut by weather.

It will be a miracle if the Indian army does not suffer KIAs to the elements if they try to hold their positions throughout winter, with the main question probably being how many dead they take and whether entire camps and outposts gets wiped out by Mother Nature.

Chinese psychOps in January won’t be about Indians going home, it will be, come surrender if you want to live, or stay and become human popsicles.
 
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