1962: To be ready for future, accept past blunders

Today, 50 years ago, the Chinese PLA had pressed the ‘pause’ button in the offensive they started on October 20, when in less than four days they had routed 7 Infantry Brigade at Namkachu and captured Tawang. The drubbing the Chinese delivered to India’s hastily assembled 4 Corps in the Kameng Division of the North-East Frontier Agency (Arunachal Pradesh) was to end after another four-day blitzkrieg from November 17 to 20 after they had bundled off both Sela and Bomdila, the two impregnable fortresses.

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