A new memoir of former army chief General M.M. Naravane recalls the incident in August 2020 when the political leadership left the decision to go to war with China solely to him.
The video is no longer publicly available on YouTube but the truth stays. The situation on the China border is anything but stable, as suggested by many top military commanders and foreign minister S. Jaishankar in their public interactions.
Last month’s investiture ceremonies of the army’s Western Command and Central Command revealed clashes between Indian and Chinese soldiers in 2022, which included attempts by the People’s Liberation Army to capture certain Indian posts on the Line of Actual Control. Officers were also awarded for covert operations “deep within Chinese territory” to conduct surveillance. These were not limited to Ladakh but …
Sushant Singh is a lecturer at Yale University. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and deputy editor of The Indian Express. A winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018, he had earlier served in the Indian Army for two decades. He is also the author of Mission Overseas and co-author of Note by Note: The India Story.
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