what a coincidence just few days ago i saw some sino-indian wars film documentary and to my surprise that i found that most of the indian soldiers didn't have the courage to fight frontal wars with the chinese soldiers at all, they simply just fled to the surrounding forests ( happened near towns/garrisons units before Dawang/eastern sector) abandoning all their newly received war equipments fr the west, even fr israel ! someone will said that it's because of human wave tactics, no, actually it's because chinese commanders found some narrow passages in one side of the mountain ranges to reach positions behind enemy lines and attacked fr both sides also cutting their supply lines ! (what a surprise attack/tactic, the indian soldiers never expected them at all !!)
the film also described other war scenes, but i couldn't tell all of them here !
there are also a widespread chaos and confusions in new dehli when they heard chinese soldiers occupied last mountain defence town in the western sector ! (many chinese shops were burned & looted too !)
actually, i'm wondering why in the first place nehru's government wanted to provoke china with their aggressive policy by building many military posts beyond the mcmahon line ?
india at that time was a non-aligned country and suffered alot fr british colonialism, why should india follow the imperialism doctrine of their former ruler ? if nehru wanted to raise their national pride & dignity 'cause of the long british occupation, they should choose other smaller targets like pakistan or burma etc instead of china !
china and india are both 5000 years old civilizations who lived/co-existed peacefully since the ancient times (buddhism even came fr india to china) and i don't see why these two nations should fight each other now or in the future or to be used by western imperialism to be a counter-weight to each other to create regional instability!