Menon would go down in infamy for his troubled time as Defense Minister where he demoralized the Indian Army, played favorites, promoted incompetent generals, and refused to accept suggestions made by the Indian army to improve its defenses against the Chinese. VK Krishna Menon who was Defense Minister from 1957 till the war in 1962 when he was forced to resign. The book is also very critical of Indian Defense Ministers since Independence who were not fit for the job and did not chart out a proper strategy for India’s defense, most scorn was reserved and deservedly for Mr. Thus, all decisions relating to India’s foreign policy and relations with China had to have had Pandit Nehru’s sanction. Starting with Pandit Nehru, who was not only the Prime Minister but also the Foreign Minister during the same time.
The author doesn’t hold back in spelling out the guilty men behind the debacle and setting the record straight. This book was a tough read, at times it made you angry and at others, it made you sad, one reads in horror the collective failure on part of our political leadership to gauge the Chinese threat and also military incompetence during those fateful months of Oct and Nov in 1962. “This book is one more tree in the inevitable forest which will grow around the Indian humiliation of 1962” In the words of the author, the book has been defined in the following words The book details the events that led to the 1962 war with China and has been written by Brigadier John Dalvi, Commander of 7 Brigade which fought the Chinese in the eastern sector at the Namka Chu River Valley. Tawant Monastry, which was briefly occupied by the PLA in 1962
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