While the report may not contain significantly new revelations about the poor state of India's forces during the war, it discusses how the Army was ordered to challenge the Chinese military to a conflict it could only lose.
The report was authored by Lieutenant General Henderson Brooks and Brigadier P S Bhagat, then commandant of the Indian Military Academy, soon after the war.
It was commissioned by Lt General J N Chaudhuri who had just taken over as chief of Army staff in 1962.
As late as April 2010, defence minister AK Antony told Parliament that the contents of the report are "not only extremely sensitive but are of current operational value."
