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Report reveals India's blunders in 1962 war with China

Iran Press TV

Tue Mar 18, 2014 2:34PM GMT

A recent leaked report has critically reviewed India's ill preparedness and blunders during the 1962 war with China.

The report, released online by Australian journalist Neville Maxwell, a retired foreign correspondent who was based in Delhi at the time of the war, contains revelations about the poor state of India's forces during the war.

The secret report was authored by high-ranking Indian Military officials, soon after the war. It discusses 'how the Army was ordered to challenge the Chinese military to a conflict it could only lose.'

The report continues to be considered classified by the New Delhi government.

Meanwhile, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is the front-runner in the upcoming parliamentary elections, has slammed the government for hiding the report.

'What are they trying to hide by making the war report classified ?' BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said. 'We have a right to know what went wrong. We lost the war because of (then premier) Nehru.'

Relations between Beijing and New Delhi are overshadowed by a dispute over their border during the past decades. India and China fought a brief but bloody war over border dispute in 1962 with a decisive victory for the Chinese.

This is while both neighbors had a three-week standoff at their frontier last year.

Meanwhile, Indian media reported a secret military exercise, called 'Divine Matrix', by the Indian troops in 2009, visualizing a war scenario with China.

An Indian military's assessment has also outlined that Beijing would rely on information warfare (IW) to bring New Delhi down on its knees.

New Delhi is also suspicious of Chinese relations with India's long-time rival Pakistan.

China, on the other hand, is concerned about growing ties between Washington and New Delhi. At the meantime a controversial deal allowing India access to civilian nuclear technology has not been well-received among Chinese officials.

JR/PR