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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The Government's 'White Paper' relating to India-China Boundary issue, published between T951 and i960, clearly indicated the adversarial bilateral relations between India and China. The increasingly acrimonious exchanges on the boundary question indicated that it could precipitate matters and result in armed clashes. The incident in Longju on August 25, T959 and Kongka Pass on October 21, T959 were pointers to the determination and political will at China to stake her claims even at the cost at a war. This should have been the turning point for India; she should have begun preparing for an armed showdown to secure her territorial
integrity. Raising ot additional infantry and Artillery units and tormation Head Quarters, raising of Headquarters lV Corps, augmenting the transport tleet, inducting additional helicopters and transport aircratt, constructing roads, and redeploying torces to meet possible contingencies should have been commenced in right earnest then. Such preparation was mandatory to support a strategic decision at the magnitude as was emerging.
"Nobody is driven into war by ignorance, and no one who thinks he will gain anything trom it is deterred by fear ..... ..when there is mutual tear men think twice before they make aggressions upon another" -Hermocrates as attributed by Thucydides
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