A Decade Of Decisive Indian Actions To Counter China

NEW DELHI: The standoff due to incursion by PLA (People’s Liberation Army) troops into Depsang area of Ladakh in 2013 lasted three weeks but had a lasting effect on India about the need to prepare better to counter Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). At that time, there was just one Army division, and that too a truncated one, looking after the eastern Ladakh frontier. Air Force deployments were mostly aimed at catering to Siachen. Infrastructure in the forward areas was poor, which was also the case in Arunachal Pradesh, along the eastern frontier with China. But now, a decade later, things have changed dramatically, be it infrastructure or troop deployment, as StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale explains in this episode of ‘Simply Nitin’.
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[@shivaprasadsuvarna3062]

जय हिन्द सैल्यूट इण्डियन आर्मी एंड बीआरओ एयरफोर्स

[@aaaecey250]

The natural beauty of these sensitive areas are breathtaking. Perhaps we should encourage more tourism in these areas.

[@victor256in]

Hell no. Delhi walo ne Bhutan ja kar khubsurat jagah ki gaand mar li hai. They also turned the Holy Vaishnodevi and Haridwar into trash. Bloody punjabi lalas, jats, bhaiyas- no one needs them to destroy beautiful Arunachal

[@jovianjollity5244]

Thanks to Nitin Gokhale for the comprehensive overview of the Indian military deployments and infrastructure development in the Leh-Ladakh area and Arunachal Pradesh border areas. One’s attention turns sharper on the mention of a dedicated military corps in the Leh area that is responsible for both defensive action along the LAC, as well as (possible) offensive action in the Aksai Chin region, if needed! It’s also heartening to know that alternate routes are ready to be used for deployments and commercial/development needs in those sensitive border areas. The new infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh seem to tie in with the current government’s focus on the northeast, both in terms of strengthening defence preparedness, as well as economic development. The vibrant village scheme in that area of Arunachal Pradesh is indeed a timely initiative. One hopes similar villages/ communities can be developed in the Himachal border areas, where it has been reported in recent months that several border villages are now desolate.

[@Al-Pacca]

Thank you for the detailed update. Your brand of journalism is greatly appreciated.

[@shantanu_d]

A complete roundup of all the events and what they signified and the consequences of those. Top work Nitin.

[@deadlyninja8391]

Good Update

[@ON-tk7bp]

An excellent expose. However the issue is more fundamental - Indian political decisions are made last minute. They need a shake down or an intervention to respond to. Foresight is needed desparately with concomitant investment in infrastructure and defence ( citizen centric). But don't destroy nature. Let it work for India.

[@sanjaysharma-jf8fv]

Na koi aaya hai..naa koi aaya tha.. Red eye zindabad

[@selvanayagam]

Thank you Nitin Gokhale

[@johndoe-vc1we]

Thanks for the perspectve, Nitin.

[@sshray1115]

Superb, Informative & Impeccable ⭐⭐🌟⭐⭐

[@nitinrathi5776]

Very well articulated

[@ramkripalgupta8225]

So much informations. Very informative. I liked all your contents which I go through!

[@sayeeshpillai5842]

Outstanding and excellent as always

[@chingling4375]

Nitin ji please make a video on India's progress in application of AI, Quantum Computing and Robotics in Defence. It will dramatically improve the weaponry advantage , operation advantage (leanand mean) surveillance advantage and cost advantage (being potent enough against a larger industrial economy of china) i.e. sustanability advantage for outlasting long lasting war. We are still stuck up in building our basic level 1 infrastructure, when adversaries are way ahead than us. We have made progress but still we are a defensive force. We react but are not proactive at all. Also we need to get rid of puppet politicians in India who are on the China payroll.

[@nrao8977]

A good round-up. Need an extremely well-written write-up to accompany such videos.

[@vivektripathi6459]

Excellent episode

[@vikramarvindphadke956]

Excellent update on India's pro-active actions

[@ThinkEverest]

Ultimate content as always...india has to fight at many fronts.recent naxal attack in dantewada, terrorist attack in j&k,and Chinese build up is a big concern.we must gauge carefully

[@Peaceforall10]

Vibrant Village will turn out to be the best defence to stop the aggression of china. The general public and Tibetan needs to raised as grassers.

[@meetumalik6746]

Modi has changed indian policy. It's needed to get him Back in 2024 at least

[@nivv6613]

Finally tiger woke up

[@kendralius]

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[@ghungroogangatesh3549]

What were we doing in Galwan ? How did that happen after we got a warning in Dpesang and Bhutan ? What was ITBP doing ? Why did it not detect the intrusion ? Why is it so difficult to secure a frontier where China is building massive villages

[@sap268]

There is a big problem. ITBP and BSF report to the Home Ministry. So information they get gets pushed up, filtered and then over to Ministry of Defence - then it gets filtered down to the local level. The obvious solution is to give the Army operational control of the ITBP, BSF formations who are manning the border itself. Unfortunately, there are silos to protect and we have not done that so far.

[@purushothamannaidu9086]

Very good stuff. Ensure that troops and population are well taken care off - living conditions, welfare, medical and logistics support. One must say that while India concentrates on building infra, it must also say that it needs to watch the enemy doing the same thing and in a conflict, disabling the enemy capability - destroying their logistics, disabling their communication network is key, beating their confidence and morale - its not going to be a typical war, Needs to be quick, decisive and surgical on all fronts.

[@a.k.1960]

Thanks to Chinese. India woke up from slumber.

[@subhashishdutta]

Excellent round up yet again. Having said that, I came in thinking I'll get a good idea of the situation in Depsang before 2013 and if it is any different since then after the Chinese incursions. I don't yet know if we can continue to patrol to all those places and points that we used to before the incursion or if China has come in and is sitting inside our claimed area. It'll be good if you can do an episode on that point once with maps.

[@sudeeplimaye4399]

The fact that India's fast and sharp focus on infrastructure development is due to Chinese aggressive posture is least reported. Actually India should formally thank China for it. Let Indian planners prey that China continues with its misadventures so that the entire border infrastructure gets developed. This should help couple of decades later when India will have to help liberate the occupied northern neighborhood.

[@Red.bulldozer3]

Nitin, you should tell the bitter truth without mincing words . Tell us depsang plains is under whose control now?

[@navneet8269]

Nitin aapka kaise shukriya Ada karun jitna bhi karunga kam hi hoga 2020 ke Galvin class ke bad Mera apna observation tha China ka yah last offensive hoga.. main pahle bhi kaha tha ham do bar blood donate kar chuke hain 62 aur galwan main Aapke conversation ko sunkar bahut tasalli Hui Bharat Mata aapki Kalam ko dher de

[@adishwarkumarjain6512]

Mr. Nitin. If you get a chance, please do a show about the reality of our defence production capabilities as of now ( not what is in the future). It seems we always talk about what we are planning to do but not about what we are producing and deploying now

[@Happiness.789]

If you want to compete with any nation, then the greatest strength of nation power is it's economy. Because without money nothing is possible. Modern warfare and equipment cost lot's of money.

[@adityatyagi4009]

Why does it seem India is always behind in everything? Reacting to aggression, developing arms, developing technology, developing infrastructure, etc. Indian leaders are always reacting to events rather than actively working to shape them. Disappointing.

[@TheFlagUnit]

China is great

[@advaityachandhoke1406]

Great report sir. I will still suggest Army to convert the Leh based 14 Corps. & Tezpur based 4 Corps. into Mountain Strike Corps. while keeping 1 Strike Corps. (Now Mountain Strike Corps.) & 17 Mountain Strike Corps. as reserves for the respective Theatres. Infact, Army should also reorient the Yol based 9 Corps. towards China by bringing it under the Northern Command (in future Northern Theatre Command) instead of it being part of the South-Western Command that takes care of Pakistan border. It can take care of the Middle Sector bordering Tibet (Himachal & Uttarakhand). Army needs to focus on inducting equipment that gives it shoot & scoot capability in the mountains like Mobile Artillery & Mortar systems as well as fastracking Project Cheetah to upgrade Heron Fleet to enhance our Surveillance (& Armed) capability.

[@sk5940]

"Better be prepared for war, Peace is hard won." Having Congress was the biggest sin our country.

[@ASTeer1699]

Bjp rss is more dangerous for India but you will not see it today.

[@sk5940]

@@ASTeer1699 that doesn't change anything. While supporting Congress People forget, that most of bjp today is itself congress.

[@aks2858]

Hello Nitin

[@Red.bulldozer3]

Decades of indecision and firmness of indians on depsang plains had led to chinese control over it. Indians claims of used to patrol depsang plains do not. hold water and did stop the chinese from occupying it. The loss of depsang plains to chinese is very critical to survival of DBO air strip and subsequently to control of siachen glacier.

[@sanjithrithvik3548]

Depsang was already lost in 2013 when pla built a forward post but our army used to patrol it. But liberal media claims it was lost in 2020

[@navneet8269]

Galvin clash ke samay hamare ssf force ne Kailash heights par kabja kiya tha Jahan se China ka hotan saaf hamare range mein a gaya hai Kya humne esa dis engagement ke dauran ise Khali kar Diya? Kripya iska jawab jarur den aapka shukriya Nitin

[@wasimirabbani4851]

Interestingly, there were many such Nitin Gokhales, in the earlier part of 1962, who were showering high praises for the Nehru's audacious "Forward Policy", against China. Some of them were even drawing parallels between Nehru and Nepoleon. Euphoria and jingoism, in India, became particularly sky high, from mid September to 20th October. But, after November 1962, when the dust settled; these analysts were nowhere to be seen.

[@a.k.1960]

This is not 1962. And Modi is not Nehru. Chinese know that. You better look for the next begging bowl.

[@abhilash9918]

During 1962 there was no social media and private satellite imagery to cross check claims made by people. The whole galwan conflict happened because china too sees rapid infra development by India. It's a fact and not a claim or someones personal opinion.

[@Red.bulldozer3]

When the indians really wake at depsang plains, Nitin? Are the plains still under indian control?😂

[@firetree2007]

In Galwan time the Chinese people concerned about the situation in front, PLA soldiers in there wrote back to the friends in the cities, told them, no worry, no matter what way they choose to fight, we will win all the time, that is also the answer now to all your "better plans in counter China" , no matter what kind plan you have, we will win.

[@srinivasankrishnan1595]

China lost all battles. Recent war with Vietnam China lost. China is having baby soldiers. India having battle hardened troops.

[@shouvikmukherjee6147]

😂

[@a.k.1960]

Sure.ask your galwan graves , your sinking economy, ageing soldiers.

[@mmd5844]

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[@siddhantk4985]

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[@Fulcrum123]

Modi government is doing good when it comes to national security. It's great feeling !

[@ramarao6480]

Do we have a modern operable road right upto karakoram which we were constructing during the period 2021-22 or have we been stopped by China in completing the highway? Why is it no journalist speaks about the karakoram highway?

[@wasimirabbani4851]

I think, you are asking about Darbuk-Shyok-DBO Road. That has been completed and is under use. It joins Leh with Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO), which is shortly south of Karakorum Pass.

[@puneet90]

For the next decade China would push India to focus more on it's Northern (NE as well) frontiers just so that it can prevent India from expanding in the Indian Ocean.

[@AHOXA_]

Confronting China on Depsang Plains with 50,000 troops doesn't make strategic sense. The tremendous hardship and cost of an all year presence in an area that is uninhabitated and barren is wasteful. What will China do if we withdrew. They are not going to come deeper. They are only there to protect their highway running from Tibet to Sinkiang.

[@rathanapparathanappa5077]

Simply NITIN is simply great. *May GOD bless you sir* I am from South INDIA. ❤️🇮🇳🪔😮

[@mchammer3927]

Forget it make peace and move on with Brisc

[@nagamanjunath2102]

We'll need at least a decade of peace and nominal GDP growth of 8+ to ensure that the chinsese won't even think of any kinetic action in our Northern borders.

[@joal9235]

Modi’s arrogance in messing with JK & Ladakh borders that awakened the sleeping giant, the 5 x size of Modi’s country. …PLA.

[@nagbalkur1365]

All thanks to Modi government. Scaling new heights.

[@TheFlagUnit]

One day the West will attack the Hindutvas

[@firetree2007]

The South Tibet was never even claimed by British, McMahon line was just proposed by British in 1914 as a bargain to the Chinese government, but not any Chinese government agreed, that is why Tawang on map should be in west side of McMahon line should be controlled by British Raj, but it was under control by Tibet local government in all time in British Raj period , not controlled by British Raj, Tawang was occupied only in Feb 1952, not by British but by Nehru sent army, PLA reached Lhasa in October 1952

[@SumanMondal-tk4fk]

Tibet itself is not a part of China forget about South Tibet and what not ..!!

[@tandavaar1598]

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[@tandavaar1598]

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[@tandavaar1598]

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[@firetree2007]

@@SumanMondal-tk4fk you slap to your own dark brown face, tell me why Indian government recognize Tibet is part of China??

[@harshavenkatesh9906]

Dont expose everything to chinese

[@sanjaysharma-jf8fv]

Stooge

[@Jacknjellify531.]

Seems like a fault of the NSA or intelligence or the correct organization who keeps an eye on the borders and neighbors of india. This shouldn’t have happened in the first place, after 18 rounds of talks it’s embarrassing to keep giving empty statements, now that they are sitting on a territory they weren’t previously on, looks like we have now run out of options.

[@firetree2007]

full of BS, not making any sense, one example is SSN road which is over 100 km to China's highway 219 at Galwan, HW 219 is close to India at Pangong Tso not at Galwan, it is right at the east edge of Pongong Tso. India spent $1.5 billion and 20 year built a strategic road SSN to support its north front line to Pakistan, however, at Galwan, this important road is only 5.7 km from LAC China side, so with China's anti tank missile Red Arrow 10 with range of 10 km, this road will be totally useless in war. So Indian army organized "snow leopard operation" by sending 600-700 Indian army (a battalion) to push China army out of this range, only be beaten miserably by PLA, now PLA is still the that same position, Indian army dared not to try again.

[@tandavaar1598]

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[@tandavaar1598]

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[@siddhantk4985]

Yeah we have seen how Chinese CCP soi boys ran away in arunachal..

[@MrRajenkiwi]

AS USUAL AN EXCELLENT EPISODE. tHE ONLY BLOKE i LISTEN TO ON H[MALAYA MATTERS. nO HYPE.