@Abu Shaleh Rumi
The big advantage now is that India has the DS-DBO road, which has also helped in the induction of more tanks, including the T-90, over the past few years. The tanks came on trailers via the Zoji La pass through the Srinagar-Leh Highway.
From Leh, the DS-DBO road provides the connectivity for further deployment of the tanks into SSN.
The road always existed. It is just that the alignment was not great but the tanks could move. The problem was during the summers when the Shyok used to get flooded. There was no problem during winters because the river would freeze. India initially began with three regiments of 46 tanks each positioned at vantage points at the SSN. This number has been bolstered to a very comfortable level.
@vishwambhar
The Chinese aggression at the Galwan Valley and the Depsang Plains is an attempt to put pressure on the DS-DBO road and stop further infrastructure build-up. All-weather DS-DBO road with 37 prefabricated military truss bridges is a game changer for the Indian military. In the last five years, there has been a steep rise in construction setting off alarm bells in the Chinese establishment.
In early May, Chinese and Indian troops confronted each other along their remote, disputed border in the Himalayas. For 40 days, the two sides engaged in
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An article by Yun Sun, senior fellow and co-director of the East Asia Program at the Stimson Center, said the Chinese saw Indian infrastructure activity “as a consistent and repeated effort by Delhi that needs to be corrected every few years”.
For the Chinese, the infrastructure arms race in the border region has led to repeated Indian incursions and changes to the status quo.
Otherwise, all the things China fought for in the 1962 war would have been in vain according to Yun Sun
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