...who hates India with passion. And vice-versa. Anyone should know it before reading anything signed by him.
Why because he told the truth and not pandering to the Indian nationalist warped sense of injurious justice?
There is nothing in his bio that said he is Chinese agent. He was British by birth and Australian by nationality,educated in McGill Canada.
He work as Times foreign correspondent in 59 and follow the border dispute first hand
During the 1962 , Maxwell wrote for The Times from New Delhi, and was the only reporter there who did not uncritically accept the official Indian account of events. This eventually led to his "virtual expulsion" from India.
Of course the Indian hate him because he didn't buy their narrative. If GOI is right about the cause of war then publish the Henderson report. Sofar the GOI refused to publish it
The
Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report, also referred to as the Henderson Brooks report, is the report of an analysis (Operations Review) of the
of 1962. Its authors are officers of the
. They are Lieutenant-General
and Brigadier
, commandant of the
at the time.
More than 50 years after its creation, the report remains classified by the . In April 2010, India's Defence Minister told Parliament that the report could not be declassified because its contents “are not only extremely sensitive but are of current operational value.". This statement was criticized by BJP leaders including who even penned a blog post on it . After May 2014, when BJP led government came to power ; the newly appointed Defence Minister Arun Jaitley refused to declassify the report. Jaitley removed his blog post and also agreed that the Brooks report could not be declassified.
The report is said to be openly critical of the Indian political and military structure of the time, as well as of the execution of operations. According to Australian journalist
, the report says that the Indian government which was keen to recover territory, advocated a cautious policy; whilst the Army Headquarters dictated a policy that was militarily unsound.
On 17 March 2014, Neville Maxwell posted Volume 1 of the two-volume report on his website.
Maxwell had acquired a copy of the report and wrote his book
India's China War based on it.
In an interview, Maxwell says he has never seen Volume 2, but understands it to be "mainly memos, written statements and other documents on which the authors based the report".
Some analysts argue that continuing public controversy over the report indicates that many of the problems identified in the report continue today.