Thread by @Ak5985965

Main factor was that Chinese did not have the military advantage that they thought they did. They did not understand the terrain and operational art. Battles are determined by what forces you bring to bear in theatre and how you use them. Chinese could bring to bear

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barely 200 odd 4/4.5 gen a/c due to paucity of air fields close to theatre. Heights of their airfileds and lack of logistics on those airfields hampered their optimal use

They brought 2 Divs (4th and 6th) and we countered with atleast 2 (3 and 39). Given the terrain even

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if they brought 10 Divs, which they don't have, they can still only deploy them sequentially because of terrain. And if we dominate the passes like Spangur then we can pick off their armour easily

Most importantly they have no stomach for a fight. They were trying to win

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by propaganda and intimating India. Our fight was more against the mental blocks and cobwebs we had than China. Am glad that those have been cleared to some extent.

But let's have no illusions. Nothing has been resolved and unlikely that anything will be resolved. We have

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given them a face saving way out. Personally I would not have since they were finding the deployment much tougher than us. But the govt and army have taken that call so fine. We need to remember that all treaties are just 🚻 paper for them. We will have to enforce them by force.