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Chinese Intransigence in Ladakh: An Overview (Vol No 2 – 2020) – Major General PK Mallick, VSM (Retd

14 Dec 2020

The border towns and provincial capitals There are some similarities with the conflict fought of Lao Cai on the Red River in the west and Cao 31 years back and the ongoing conflict at LAC Bang in the central sector were the key initial Some of them are: Chinese objectives. [...] Seizure of Lang Son and posing a clear changed the rules of engagement suddenly threat to Hanoi and the regime there was the to their advantage to their unsuspecting ultimate operational objective of the PLA assault. [...] China is consistently pushing conventional war is always round the corner and the envelope, feeling the water, observing the there is no scope of any complacency. [...] Policymakers must then all the talk of the Indian military having the direct the army to do the restructuring within an capability of being an expeditionary force, capable acceptable timeframe. [...] The United Service Institution of India was founded in 1870 by a soldier scholar, Colonel (later Major General) Sir Charles MacGregor for the “furtherance of interest and knowledge in the art, science, and literature of the Defence Services”.
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