The Lowdown on the 1962 India-China War

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India Forced To Confront The Truth. Strategy Page, Apr 10, 2014.
www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20140410.aspx

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“In India a 51 year old classified government study (Henderson Brooks report) of the 1962 war with China (which India lost, badly) was recently made public by an Australian journalist

“An Indian brigade was moved into position, but the troops had little ammo, cold weather clothing or medical supplies. At that point India had 12,000 troops in the area while China had brought forward 80,000. In a month of fighting (starting on 20 October) India lost 7,000 troops (57 percent prisoners, the rest dead or missing) compared to 722 dead Chinese. China declared a ceasefire that India accepted. China actually advanced in two areas, a thousand kilometers apart and ended up taking 43,000 square kilometers of Indian territory.

“in 1914, the newly independent government of Tibet worked out a border (the McMahon line) with the British (who controlled India). China considers this border agreement illegal and wants 90,000 square kilometers back. India refused, especially since this would mean losing much of the state of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India and some bits elsewhere in the area.

Note:
(a) Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson_Brooks–Bhagat_Report
(Its authors are officers of the Indian armed forces. They are Lieutenant-General Henderson Brooks and Brigadier Premindra Singh Bhagat)
(b) Henderson Brooks was described as “Anglo-Indian.”
(c) McMahon Line
n.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahon_Line
(July 3, 1914; The line is named after Sir Henry McMahon, foreign secretary of the British-run Government of India and the chief negotiator of the convention at Simla; without Chinese participation)
(d) Simla (now Shimla) is capital and the largest city (by population) of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himachal_Pradesh