Aren't these areas abandoned once winter sets in, say around November at the latest? What happens to all these temporary structures erected then - be it Indian or Chinese?
It stopped after Kargil. Thanks to Pakistanis.
First of all in mountain warfare the party that is on top of the mountain has advantage.
PLA has advantage.
Yes. A man on high ground has advantage but if the terrain is like that of Ladakh, it is a problem.
But AFAIK Modi wont back down .Guy has tremendous will power .
Mobilisation of entire military showed his nature .
Most probably there will be limited war includes AF and Army .
Navy involves if it gets serious
IN will be involved bigtime. We have to defeat China in all domains to rise again as the world power and the way QUAD will behave, they will want IN to go into offensive. PLAN is easy meat for us in IOR and SCS with QUAD. China has tried to bite more than it can chew. Its not Indo-Pak equation where the world will look other way. Its India-China-world equation. Modi will fight this war and also win it. In 1962, stars favouered China but this time with similar star alignment, the stars favour India. It might turn out to be as one sided this time also but against China and in favour of India.
Their aim is remove us from siachen and increase the buffer between us and the Karakoram. The fight is for extending Aksai Chin and linking it with Shaksam. The quicker we realise what they are up to, the more forcefully we can respond. De-capitation of PoJK is paramount now. Else, this will just be delaying the game.
I always stated that it was about CPEC and relieving pressure on Pakistan. Chinese have spent largest amount of money in CPEC. They can't let it go. They initially tried to rope in India as a partner but that failed. Now with BJP announcing that they want whole of J&K including POJK & GB, china is worried about its investments. Did it ever occur to you that China will loose East Turmenistan and Tibet if India has to go into offensive with world behind us?
Irrespective of who fires first shot, The supplylines of PLA will get demolished and destroyed by us. The famous 6th army of Germans for whom Hitler had said that they can they even win heavens for him was defeated only because of very long supplylines. The Battle of Stalingrad has the dubious distinction wherein a Field Martial surrendered to the enemy.
We have to ensure that initial rocket arty barrage of PLA is not able to cause much damage to our frontline formations and infra deep inside. After that they will not have reloads with them. But if India seizes the initiative and strikes them first thru pre-emptive strikes, we wont have any threat to even our formations from Chinese arty and rocket forces. After that the game goes to use of nukes. We are more than prepared to kill over 80% chinese population as they are not homogeneously spread like Indian population. Plus, first nuke strike on India will bring a shower of nukes on China from rest of the world. The pet dogs of China, will be gone much before that. I mean Pakistan & N Korea.
I am 100% sure that even Russia will help India in this war as they too have very old grudge with China plus demise of China will help them more than a strong China. They want to get into Mongolia, especially inner Mongolia. World and chinese want China dismembered. Freedom from CCP.