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India’s continuing two-front conundrum
Changing our approach towards mask use
Don’t Defer To China (ToI)
Returning to the city
NEWS
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India’s continuing two-front conundrum
Changing our approach towards mask use
Don’t Defer To China (ToI)
Returning to the city
NEWS
India’s continuing two-front conundrum
?Since 1959, when India-China relations sharply
deteriorated, India has known that it has two
geopolitical adversaries.
?Recently, India ’ s Chief of the Army Staff, General
Manoj Mukund Naravane, reassuringly said in May at
the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses that the
IndianArmy remains “alive ” to a “two-front ” war.
?Whenever India has forgotten that it has two
antagonists and let its guard down, it has paid dearly
for it.
?The two obvious examples are the 1962 and 1971
wars.
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India’s continuing two-front conundrum
Changing our approach towards mask use
Don’t Defer To China (ToI)
Returning to the city
NEWS
India’s continuing two-front conundrum
?Since 1959, when India-China relations sharply
deteriorated, India has known that it has two
geopolitical adversaries.
?Recently, India ’ s Chief of the Army Staff, General
Manoj Mukund Naravane, reassuringly said in May at
the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses that the
IndianArmy remains “alive ” to a “two-front ” war.
?Whenever India has forgotten that it has two
antagonists and let its guard down, it has paid dearly
for it.
?The two obvious examples are the 1962 and 1971
wars.
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India’s continuing two-front conundrum
Changing our approach towards mask use
Don’t Defer To China (ToI)
Returning to the city
NEWS
India’s continuing two-front conundrum
?Since 1959, when India-China relations sharply
deteriorated, India has known that it has two
geopolitical adversaries.
?Recently, India ’ s Chief of the Army Staff, General
Manoj Mukund Naravane, reassuringly said in May at
the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses that the
IndianArmy remains “alive ” to a “two-front ” war.
?Whenever India has forgotten that it has two
antagonists and let its guard down, it has paid dearly
for it.
?The two obvious examples are the 1962 and 1971
wars.
?The mistake made earlier is instructive today.
?The interactions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
President Xi Jinping at Wuhan (April 2018) and Mamallapuram,
Tamil Nadu (October 2019) further blind-sided those involved in
foreign and security policy planning in New Delhi.
The lessons of 1962
?In the India-China interactions leading up to the 1962 China-India
war, India had demonstrated friendliness without reciprocity and
firmness without force.
?Despite deteriorating India-China relations in the late-1950s, neither
Nehru nor Krishna Menon had contemplated a war between the two
countries.
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India’s continuing two-front conundrum
Changing our approach towards mask use
Don’t Defer To China (ToI)
Returning to the city
NEWS
India’s continuing two-front conundrum
?Since 1959, when India-China relations sharply
deteriorated, India has known that it has two
geopolitical adversaries.
?Recently, India ’ s Chief of the Army Staff, General
Manoj Mukund Naravane, reassuringly said in May at
the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses that the
IndianArmy remains “alive ” to a “two-front ” war.
?Whenever India has forgotten that it has two
antagonists and let its guard down, it has paid dearly
for it.
?The two obvious examples are the 1962 and 1971
wars.
?The mistake made earlier is instructive today.
?The interactions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
President Xi Jinping at Wuhan (April 2018) and Mamallapuram,
Tamil Nadu (October 2019) further blind-sided those involved in
foreign and security policy planning in New Delhi.
The lessons of 1962
?In the India-China interactions leading up to the 1962 China-India
war, India had demonstrated friendliness without reciprocity and
firmness without force.
?Despite deteriorating India-China relations in the late-1950s, neither
Nehru nor Krishna Menon had contemplated a war between the two
countries.
?Mr. Menon, “firmly opposed moving a single man
from the Kashmir front, so convinced was he that
Pakistan would attack at any opportune moment ”.
?It was his immutable belief that Pakistan was the
threat, not China.
?Nehru too shared the view that Pakistan posed the
greater threat to India.
?Indeed, it was Nehru who told Krishna Menon and
India ’ s Chief of the Army Staff that he had reliable
information that the Chinese forces would not
offer resistance if there was a show of force from
India.