AUSTERLITZ
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I just can't figure out where you guys get this level of confidence from, because of MoM and 104? Last time someone used this type language to China, ended up writing to JFK a month later begging for US help.
The confidence comes from conditions in the ground.Our navy holds your economy hostage.Our airforce has advantage because urs is handicapped due to high altitude and unable to use more than 30-40% of it facing india due to limited airbases.We have 10 specialist veteran mountain divisions dug in who live in those conditions,you have 3 brigades only which are acclimatized.We have far better mountain fighters with real battle experience,your soldiers are rookies in comparison.You have 3-4 main links into tibet,we take those out who is going to save your army from starving?Paper strength means nothing without accounting for logistics and geography.Comparing the Indian forces of today to 1962 is the same as comparing the chinese army of 1962 to 50 yrs earlier-1912 when they were defeated and driven out of tibet by the tibetan army.You overcame scattered outposts and patrols of 10,000 soldiers with 80,000 men in a surprise attack.You achieved necessary 8:1 ratio needed to overcome a defender in mountain conditions and also had surprise.You had automatic weapons,we fought with ww2 bolt action rifles.The Indian army of 1962 was weaker than pakistan,it hadn't even begun its modernization.In 1962 we were the rookies,you had the veterans of the civil war and korea.Now its other way round -your army is soft,and hasn't fought in real time in over 30 years.We have the veterans of kargil ,siachen and daily ops in harsh mountain conditions.We have raised 10 mountain divisions since 1962.We know we can easily repulse a chinese attack on the defensive,though we are not yet strong enough for an offensive.And your army knows it too that it can't do much,that is why it is just engaging in vocal fireworks and nothing more.Thats why the chinese who disregard Intl law in SCS,are begging 'intl law' here.It can't do anything and knows it.You chinese have become too used to pushing phillipines and vietnam around.If you thought India was another small neighbour you could bully,time for a reality check.