Indianfighter said:
Thank you for replying Mr. Jagan. The information given by you was good, and is a step forward in the confirmation of the fact that Indian troops were outnumbered in quite many--if not all--of the fronts of that war. I shall try to get the book by Brig. Dalvi.
The research paper on the 1962 war by Lt.Com James Calvin (US Navy), is here :
Hi
Welcome to Mr Jagan. No offense Jagan but I would call you probably the
most biased person after reading some of the stuff on your site so forgive
me if I take your claims with a pinch of salt.
Similarly Lt. Com James Calvin wrote his paper as he himself admits with very little access to chinese archives however we have now been blessed with a great deal of information in the years since.
I'll use the indian website Rediff.com as a source if I may because you are obviously familiar with it's exposure of a number of Indian political and military scandals. Mr Neville Maxwell was able to get access to secret Indian documents which were NEVER revealed to Lt Com Calvin
1. India was responsible for the war which it caused by provoking India
under the impression that Chinese forces were weaker.
Indians will be shocked to discover that, when China crushed India in 1962, the fault lay at India, or more specifically, at Jawaharlal Nehru and his clique's doorsteps. It was a hopelessly ill-prepared Indian Army that provoked China on orders emanating from Delhi, and paid the price for its misadventure in men, money and national humiliation.
and also
When the Army's report into its debacle in the border war was completed in 1963, the Indian government had good reason to keep it Top Secret and give only the vaguest, and largely misleading, indications of its contents. At that time the government's effort, ultimately successful, to convince the political public that the Chinese, with a sudden 'unprovoked aggression,' had caught India unawares in a sort of Himalayan Pearl Harbor was in its early stages, and the Report's cool and detailed analysis, if made public, would have shown that to be self-exculpatory mendacity.
2. As can be seen from the above it is obvious that the Indian military
had not planned a military campaign against China properly, however
contrary to the mantra from members of BR and certain Indian nationalists
the soldiers facing Chinese troops were not some college kids
Now many units of the once crack Indian 4th Division dissolved into rout without giving battle and, by November 20, there was no organised Indian resistance anywhere in the disputed territories. On that day, Beijing announced a unilateral ceasefire and intention to withdraw its forces: Nehru, this time, tacitly accepted.
Thus it is obvious to anyone that if you decide to launch a campaign
against a nation and lose please don't behave like children and whine
about 'but they used human-wave tactics' (they didn't) or 'they
outnumbered us' (why didn't you think of that prior to attacking?)
As for comments about democratic india and how we have to provide
information to the public...
After consultation with Mullik, Palit took it upon himself to rule that HB/B should not have access to any documents emanating from the civil side -- in other words, he blindfolded the enquiry, so far as he could, as to the nexus between the civil and military. As Palit smugly recounts his story, in an autobiography published in 1991, he personally faced down both Henderson Brooks and Bhagat, rode out their formal complaints about his obstructionism, and prevented them from prying into the 'high level policies and decisions' which he maintained were none of their business.
