India-China Border Standoff: Taming the Dragon at the Border
At a time when India and China were celebrating seventy years of their bilateral relations, the Chinese fatally and brutally set new, lowered standards of unprovoked and pre-meditated intimidatory behaviour along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the un-demarcated India-China border.
Proactively guarding the borders
In order to outmanoeuvre the adversaries, India’s border guarding forces must focus on evolving their tactics from largely manpower-intensive border guarding system to technology-based proactive surveillance system. The preoccupation of the Nation with happenings in Eastern Ladakh has caused the strategic...
Avoid hysteria, act cautiously
The situation on the India-China border is very tense as the Galwan valley seems to have penetrated deep into India’s collective national consciousness. The clashes leading up to the Galwan tragedy have shattered the myth of ‘personal chemistry’ between the top leaders as the Chinese are rightly viewed...