pmukherjee
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^^^^ Yeah buddy we too have similar photos from 1971 but what is the point? You are in this just to cheer on your favorite team, right? You are not playing, not in terms of this thread title anyway. All this attempt to insert yourself where you have no role to play, are not wanted and really can make no significant impact is just to show solidarity with the only friend you have left. To that extent, your intentions are laudable and your point well taken. However pls bear in mind that in the event of a future Sino-Indian conflict, Pakistan will have no bearing nor impact. You would do well to keep minding your own business and hope that the war would end soon without the nuclear threshold having been reached and that your country did not have to face wide spread destruction in a war that had nothing to do with you in the first place as a nuclear war between China and India would not leave Pakistan untouched.
Coming to the topic. What the author says is not untrue. There is no sense of bravado, over confidence or macho hype in the ranks of the Indian Army, but at the same time, every one realises that 1962 can never be repeated ever again. We no longer have the great USSR to keep the Chinese at bay, but we have out grown the need for a big brother watching our back. This has happened slowly, over decades but we have a state of equilibrium now where the cost of aggression against India will be so prohibitive that China will really have to hopping mad and crazy to undertake such aggression. We are also much wiser now in that we do not provoke China unnecessarily as we have no intention to go to war with China.
What the media frequently fails to grasp that in order to deter a Chinese aggression (of the 1962 type), it is not necessary for India to match China militarily. We can never do that, the gap is too wide. But the point is that we don't have to do that. We just have to be strong enough to deny a decisive victory to China unless it pulls out substantial resources from their northern and eastern borders. China knows this all too well, China also knows that it can never denude its borders with Russia or weaken its defences in the east to muster up enough infantry divisions or artillery brigades to punch a hole in the Indian defences. On our part we do not give China any reason to think of doing so. All the actions we are taking currently along our northern borders, be it raising of new divisions or reviving old airfields are totally defensive in nature. India has done nothing to acquire capabilities to attack China in Tibet or elsewhere. China therefore does not face any threat from India. All we are doing is to equip ourselves to better handle the Chinese threat.
This is what India has learnt from 1962. We do not provoke China unnecessarily while at the same time we strengthen ourselves to the point that another Chinese aggression is practically ruled out.
The bottom line is that neither India nor China wants a war nor can either country afford one. The humiliation of 1962 will never be forgotten but both countries have really moved on. The media will keep sensationalising minor border incidents which will be duly used by the Indian Army to get more resources from the govt to further strengthen itself and life will go on.
Coming to the topic. What the author says is not untrue. There is no sense of bravado, over confidence or macho hype in the ranks of the Indian Army, but at the same time, every one realises that 1962 can never be repeated ever again. We no longer have the great USSR to keep the Chinese at bay, but we have out grown the need for a big brother watching our back. This has happened slowly, over decades but we have a state of equilibrium now where the cost of aggression against India will be so prohibitive that China will really have to hopping mad and crazy to undertake such aggression. We are also much wiser now in that we do not provoke China unnecessarily as we have no intention to go to war with China.
What the media frequently fails to grasp that in order to deter a Chinese aggression (of the 1962 type), it is not necessary for India to match China militarily. We can never do that, the gap is too wide. But the point is that we don't have to do that. We just have to be strong enough to deny a decisive victory to China unless it pulls out substantial resources from their northern and eastern borders. China knows this all too well, China also knows that it can never denude its borders with Russia or weaken its defences in the east to muster up enough infantry divisions or artillery brigades to punch a hole in the Indian defences. On our part we do not give China any reason to think of doing so. All the actions we are taking currently along our northern borders, be it raising of new divisions or reviving old airfields are totally defensive in nature. India has done nothing to acquire capabilities to attack China in Tibet or elsewhere. China therefore does not face any threat from India. All we are doing is to equip ourselves to better handle the Chinese threat.
This is what India has learnt from 1962. We do not provoke China unnecessarily while at the same time we strengthen ourselves to the point that another Chinese aggression is practically ruled out.
The bottom line is that neither India nor China wants a war nor can either country afford one. The humiliation of 1962 will never be forgotten but both countries have really moved on. The media will keep sensationalising minor border incidents which will be duly used by the Indian Army to get more resources from the govt to further strengthen itself and life will go on.
