1962 Sino-Indian war and India’s humiliating defeat from China

On 20^th October, 1962, China allegedly attacked Indian border posts probably the Indian police outpost. It was perhaps the first incident in the world were war was started by military or army attacking a police post (Though Chinese authorities hold a different view claiming It was India which started the aggression).

Though many Indians due to their over-patriotic nature make excuses for India’s defeat that it never suspected that China would attack or India was unprepared to repulse the aggression, there were enough warnings that China was going to attack India. Some incidents are like there were minor skirmishes between Indian troops and Chinese soldiers in 1960s before the war and lot of disputes regarding the border territories. Some even made excuses that Chinese soldiers outnumbered Indian troops whereas in Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979, Vietnam was able to counter Chinese attack being much smaller nation than India and its soldiers also being lesser than Chinese, which finally ended the war in a draw.

However, we did win a small conflict in Sikkim called the ‘Chola incident’ with China and countered their invasion when things were not in control.

We should learn from the 1962 defeat and learn from China instead of taking help from west who did not gave any kind of co-operation during the war. This is because that in the world of today, it is better to learn from a smart enemy and work with them rather than to have a stupid friend.