Thread by @ruchirsharma_1

Important. One of the reasons Beijing has no respect for India as an equal sovereign state is because we take pride in adopting the aesthetics, philosophies, and operating procedures of the British Raj, reinforcing their view we are still a "semi-colony".

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"Many of these honours were awarded to units of the then British Indian Army, for fighting against local Indian kings. For example, battle honours were won by units during the first Indian uprising against the British, in 1857, including in the battle with Rani Lakshmibai."

"[M]ost military studies in the country refer to the writings of Sun Tzu ... and British strategists such as Liddel Hart and the German General Clausewitz, while there are comparatively fewer references to indigenous works such as Kautilya’s Arthashastra."

"[S]trategies enunciated in the Indian epics would also be studied in greater detail, alongside the battle tactics of Shivaji – for guerilla tactics – and Raja Raja Chola I and his son Rajendra Chola – for naval warfare.

There will also be a greater emphasis on Indian languages"

"A combat paper published by the Army War College, Mhow, in 2016 ... had stated that “indigenous strategic thoughts and art of war found in the Arthashastra, Mahabharata and other literature are not only organic to Indian psyche, but are also relevant even in today’s context”."

"This included the Dhanurveda (which talks about defence planning, tactics, constitution of defence forces, selection and training of defence personnel, military arrays, divisions of fighting, equipment, long range weapons etc)."

"The paper had also referred to chapter 7 of Manusmriti, stating it deals with statecraft and rules of war, Shukra Niti (military aphorisms of sage Shukracharya) and the Puranas like Agni Purana, Brahma Purana and Brahmanda Purana which deals with diplomacy and theories on war."

"It had also discussed the evolution of military strategy in India through the eras, and emphasised on the information warfare strategy by Kautilya, the Indian art of war and foreign policies."

'Panchsheel' and 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' are good slogans, but it does not change the fact that if you look and act like a colony, you will be treated like a colony.

“The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.” -Nkrumah