Recent Ladakh Truce Took Away a Great Indian Opportunity
India gave away too much to buy peace in Ladakh. In fact, Chinese belligerence needed a big hard kick on their back but Alas! that opportunity is all gone. They attempted another piece of Salami slicing of Indian land and offered India that rare opportunity to kick them in the Himalayas. That opportunity would have laid to rest Chinese expansionist policies in the rest of Asia. India had all the advantages in all of Ladakh to capture back Akas-Chin plateau and severe the road link between Sinking and Tibet. In all probability Tibet would have been free and Pakistan would be at Indian mercy in spite of nuclear threat. Alas! it did not happen. Later we may regret that lost opportunity. This was the time to wash that 1962 blot of Chinese victory, a blot on Indian conscience.
Question is that, why did they come and then why did they leave so quickly? Did they think that India is not well prepared and they can redo all that victory of 1962?........ Well their defence analysts and military leaders in Ladakh were all wrong. In a trifle, they found 200,000 Indian mountain troops all ready for action, waiting for them to make another silly move like bush whacking of an Indian unarmed party as they did on June15th. Alas! They never did. Instead they offered to withdraw without too many preconditions. All opportunities to beat the hell out of them were lost.
Do not show me comparative military numbers. These are worthless because much and I say it loudly that much of Chinese military is east centric facing Japan, Taiwan, US, Vietnam and others. A limited resources are deputed in Tibet and Sinkiang hence they cannot face a well armed India. Moreover, every military hardware they have is an illegal copy of something in the West Or a Russian copy. It works sometime and does not work other times. That is a total disadvantage to them....... India could not try out that hardware because Chinese offered to go back very quickly.
Bravo the Indian Armed forces......