Ashley Tellis, an Indian-born American strategist specialing in China and India writes:
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The footnote supporting his claim of significant Indian conventional military advantages is from Frank O’Donnell and Alex Bollfrass,
The Strategic Postures of China and India: A Visual Guide (Cambridge: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020).
I'm highlighting this part of a much longer monograph by Tellis because it provides insight into a major reason India chooses to pursue confrontation against China. India vastly overestimates itself now and in the future. Indians generally like Tellis have a hard time coming to terms with India's disappointing development in economy and power and easily believe false and exaggerated assessments of India like in the area of conventional military capability. Americans like Frank O'Donnell manipulate information to provide false and exaggerated assessments of Indian capability to persuade Indians to keep on pursuing confrontation with China as part of the Quad strategy to spread China thin. It's subtle, effective, and goes a long to explaining where we are today in Ladakh.