The India-China LAC disengagement is both a major step forward in the assertion of our national resolve, and a reminder that military capability gaps between India and China have already reached unsustainable levels. These are widening.
The positive outcomes first. It is hugely creditable how Indian troops stood on these heights looking the Chinese in the eye, never flinching. This was also a demonstration that the last decade’s flurry of infrastructure-building along Himalayan borders has begun to pay off.
There is no other way India would have been able to move additional forces — including an entire strike corps with
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