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Mountain strike corps: sending the right signals to China

New Delhi: The decision of the government's Cabinet Committee on Security to accord approval for the Indian Army to raise a mountain strike corps is long overdue but welcome. India's disputed territory and borders, both

India TV News Desk Updated on: July 23, 2013 14:03 IST


Should it lead to trials of combat, it can only be along our troubled borders in the mountains.



 In that context one must note that the Chinese doctrine of "Limited War Under High-Tech Conditions" relies on "Active Defence" and on "Gaining Initiative by Striking First" and that China is not shy of using military power to "Right the Wrongs of History". In so dynamic a setting, the proposed raising of a mountain strike corps strikes the right chord.

As a fall-out of the Chinese intrusion in Sumdo Rong in the mid-1980s, additional divisions were moved and deployed to strengthen our defensive posture along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, North Sikkim, and in the sensitive Kameng sector of Arunachal Pradesh.





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