Thread by @Ak5985965

I have not come across anyone who knows so little about military matters as @PravinSawhney. He regularly makes very basic mistakes in his military assessments. Let me show his big errors wrt #Disengagement

1. North Bank - China had a big advantage on North Bank because of

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https://twitter.com/PravinSawhney/status/1362028293965320193

the road from Srijap fort to F4 (chinese claim line). After F4, further access to East ie F3, F2 and so on is via a narrow foot track. Vehicles could not go there. So when we wanted to patrol from F4 to F8 (our claim line) we would have to come from F3 on foot and walk to F8

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Chinese could react very quickly and come in vehicles and block our patrols

Chinese have also built strong defences, habitat along the north bank since last June when #indiachinastandoff started. In fact they even took positions on the heights of the fingers

Now they are

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demolishing all this and ''restoring land forms''. This is a big win for us. Chinese will not move past our claim line at F8 now. So our claim line has been restored to a large extent. Yes, we cannot patrol past F4 but we could anyway not do that easily as explained above

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So North Bank is definite win for us

2. Why did China agree ? Because of our positions on #Kailash Range and ALSO because we took higher positions than Chinese on F4 heights thus dominating them there. Sahwney either does not know this or doesn't understand significance

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3. South Bank , Kailash range - Yes we are moving from South Pangong Hso and Rechinla, Rezangla but so are Chinese. Yes, dominating Spangur is important for defence of Chushul and infact entire Ladakh. But that is only if Chinese forces are in a position to launch offensive

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via Spangur gap. For that they will have to build up. Obviously Indian Army assesses that they are moving far enough back to depth areas that if they start to move back in, we will have ample warning and time to counter build up and retake the heights on Rezangla etc

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Yes China has a mobilisation advantage due to better infra and easier terrain but question is how far have they moved and how far have we moved. Only people who can judge that are commanders on ground. Not you or me. Certainly not @PravinSawhney. Sawhney is not even aware

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of these basics about tactics, terrain, deployments, staging etc. Its obvious from his tweets as he does not carefully examine any of these points

I welcome informed criticism. But unfortunately people like Sawhney have Zero knowledge and no interest in educating themselves

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@AbhijitChavda fyi since you have been watching the China disengagement closely