ONE YEAR AFTER THE CHINESE PLA AND THE INDIAN ARMY CLASHED AT THE BORDER IN GALWAN, LADAKH … AND WE LOST 20 SOLDIERS AND ONLY GOD KNOWS HOW MANY CHINA DID … I CAN SEE THAT CHINA’S STRATEGIC MOVES AGAINST US ARE STILL SO TRUE TO THE COPYBOOK SUN TZU’S PRESCRIPTIONS IN “THE ART OF WAR” …
THE WAR WITH CHINA HIGH IN THE HIMALAYAN RANGES OF LADAKH AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH WILL BE LONG AND BITTERLY COLD …. BUT AT TIMES MUCH HOTTER THAN COLD …
Sun Tzu said:
🇨🇳 Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Well … the Chinese PLA arrived there in Eastern Ladakh first before India scrambled to defend against them there, didn’t they ?
🇨🇳 Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.
Well… It seems now that it is India that is going to have to negotiate its way in the long, grinding and tortuous path to both sides “falling back to “status quo ante positions on the border as they were pre-April 2020” … And it’s China that has to be persuaded (diplomatic “please, please”?) to budge.
🇨🇳 Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.
Well … while India is kept engaged now in Eastern Ladakh , the Chinese are now showing up in greater force than ever before on the borders further east in Arunachal Pradesh and near Doklam, Bhutan too.
🇨🇳 You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.
Well… here we are in India with a borderline with China stretching for more than a 1000 miles east to west … right through neighbours like unreliable friend, Nepal, an exiled and brutalised Tibet and a meek and powerless Bhutan … Many are the spots and locations along this border that are undefended by India … and we know that China can take its pick of those anytime and in any which way — on land, by air or, if you come to think of it, even through the waters … of the River Brahmaputra?!
Sudarshan Madabushi