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Any concrete evidence that there are lesser number of troops deployed by China along LAC compared to India.
How is it that India will be able to carry out preemptive strikes dodging the Chinese AA capabilities? Although I have no knowledge about Indian capability nor the Chinese capability. What would be Chinese reaction if India carries out such strikes. Would India carry out these strike on already deployed soldiers or the incoming one?
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Then on what basis do we manage to say that yes it can be handled. Is it the ability to stop China at the border or ability to inflict disproportionate damage, both on economical and military fragment?
The Indian Army has 9 of its 12
mountain divisions deployed in the eastern sector. Each of these divisions usually consists of 15500 combat troops and 8,000 support elements. Of these, three divisions – 17th, 27th and 20th – are deployed near the India-China-Bhutan tri-junction, the site of the dhoklam standoff.
Three mountain divisions – 5th, 21st and 71st are deployed in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. Additionally, three mountain divisions of the Indian Army 2nd, 56th and 57th are deployed in Dibrugarh, Zakhama, and Leimakhong.
Against this, China has 2
mountain motorised infantry brigade and a mechanised infantry brigade close to the Indian border. While the mountain infantry brigades are based in Nyingchi region of Tibet facing Arunachal Pradesh, the only mechanised infantry brigade deployed close to the LAC is stationed in Lhasa.
In the western sector, India has an infantry division and a mountain division.India also has an armoured brigade (with over 100 T-72 tanks) to cover the flat approaches from Tibet towards India’s crucial defences at Chushul.
In comparison, China has deployed a mechanised infantry division based in Hotan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, north of Askai Chin.
Therefore, in terms of the number of troops deployed close to the boundary in both eastern and western sectors, India possesses a clear advantage.
Tibet Autonomous Region is a vast area which has stretched Chinese supply lines originating from eastern china and not everything can be protected by AA batteries.
We have also activated 11 advance landing grounds along LAC.