Will PLA Repat 1962
The Gobar Times is back yet again with a threat of of 1962 on the news that Indian Armed Forces have been allowed "Freedom of Action" on Indo - Tibet border.
In another post last night I have explained why our own ruling dispensation and MEA had deliberately weakened Indian position with respect to our Northern border with China bu bending backwards to Chinese demands of a peaceful border which they themselves had created through military aggression.
Did China Defeat Indian Military in 1962 ? We must seek an answer to need for a demilitarize border in this question. Indian border settlement activities in Ladakh was solely undertaken by IB with CRPF. till they were pushed back from as far ahead as Kizil Jilga. and Dera Haji Lunger. Indian Army came into scene when Chinese had achieved their claim line. On Eastern front the Army was deployed like police in scatterd strength felicilating a Chinese run. The PLA did not defeat the Indian Army but Indian MEA and Indian political establishment.
How Did China Annex Tibet and dictated a border with India? By military aggression and India provided them a free run. There was only police type forces to be run over by the PLA.
How Did China Trap India towards Non Militarization of Border? It was quite clear to the Chinese from 1948 Hydrabad , Goa and J&K operations that new India was quite capable of using military instruments. But afterwards. they could see how Nehru and his cronies like Menon etc had virtually rendred that machine so week. Then Chines embarked on the peacemaking Panchsheel as deceit. Unilateral withdrawal by China was used as a big trap to bring India into a demilitarised border trap.
The mortal fear of 1962 kept MEA and political establishment disengaged with China on borders which was left to the mercy of the PLA. The PLA having achieved an enforced boundary unopposed was thus free.
However subsequently. when Indian Army was allowed to inch forward upto LAC, the PLA got apprehensive . Ceratin incidents like 1967 Nathula, 1986 Op Chequred Board etc further affirmed PLA apprehensions. China then got into diplomatic drive and entrapped India into a BPTA regime. Prime aim was to adoid any exposure of real PLA.
Why is China Apprehensive of Indian Army. PLA is basically a political Army directed towards internal cohesion of China. PLA.s exposures to the Russian and Vietnam armies proved very disastrous. Any military setbacks against Indian Army would further be simply disastrous for PLA specially when China had achived their aims of occupation of Tibet and enforced border with India.. Peace along Indian border thus was always vital to China. For that keeping away Indian Army was a dire necessity.
What Were Indian Compulsions. India having achieved independence was mired into establishing internal stability. Political instability always required support of Communist Parties. New Indian elites were brainwashed with love the great Communist country China, Indian MEA being full of them and nurtured on Nehruvian mold assiduously and trained to conduct Foreign Policy towards meeting objectives of domestics politics. Overall. it was not only PLA but the Indian Political establishment which developed anti Indain Army mindset looking at it as an instrument capable of upsetting their happy apple Cart.
What Should be the Balance Approach. LAC is basically a military line enforced on India by PLA. It is not a diplomatic line. It is a military problem that can only be managed by military means. It can be amanged by Police Forces during peacetime but for every small actions the Army is required to be there for ensuring its integrity and establishing Indian sovereignity. Theefore overall control must rest with Army. Army being a threat to peace is belied by Army managing the LOC without triggering any war so far since 1948.
What should be the diplomatic Appraoch. To achieve a favorable and peaceful LAC that can be adequately protected militarily rather than being an instrument of Chinese coercion and a threat to India;s sovereignty without any prejudice to settlement of boundary with China based on LAC. The boundary question must be kept alive as we are the ones at the receiving end.
India's debacle of 1962 must be buried deep along with Nehru and his MEA establishment by an assertion of Indian sovereignty along India China LAC not necessarily by military means but by a system that can eliminate and mange military threats to LAC and a meaningful management of LAC that suits requirements of our sovereignty rather than diplomacy.
