1962 during the sino-Indian war, a reporter interviewed MacArthur, former commander of the American far east army. He said: "Whoever wants to fight China's army must be sick." MacArthur was known as the king of the Far East before the Korean War, but in the Korean War, his military career was heavily touched and he was replaced as commander of the Far East.
At that time, the Indian government urgently accepted a full set of weapons system assistance from the Soviet Union 13 Army Division and the 2 nd Air Force Division. As the Washington military at that time, due to the embarrassing result of the Korean War, it was urgent to win a war against China in the military field. At the same time, in order to further expand the "dominant" position of the United States in Central Asia. Therefore, on the third day of Soviet aid, NATO members such as Britain and the United States formed the "Asian Military Development Situation Committee." Decided to use all the American-made equipment of 18 infantry brigade to aid India. Some of the equipment came from British surplus military supplies during World War II.
Thanks to the joint support of the United States and the Soviet Union and the personal training of Indian armed forces by Soviet military advisers and experts. These made Nehru, the then head of India, have the terrible idea of "super Asian". Just as the three-year rebellion of Tibetan serf owners in China subsided, border riots broke out in Xinjiang in April. At this time, Sino-Soviet relations have actually broken down, and China and the United States continue to be seriously opposed because of the Taiwan Province Province and the Vietnamese issue. So Nehru tore up the Treaty of Non-aggression on Peaceful Borders signed with China that year. Taking the three "ace" main brigades as the advance, we crossed the "McMahon Line" and carried out armed invasions on China in Tibet and Qinghai.
However, in the early days, only a few border guards were stationed in China. There are about 2-3 companies with a total strength of less than 500 people. India 1 Brigade, which arrived in advance, is the main brigade with 6,000 people. China began to lose many outposts (although some major outposts were abandoned by China people themselves).
The Beijing government repeatedly warned the Indian government at that time. Indians are extremely arrogant under the trend of "Europe and America+Soviet Union's arms aid", and "China people dare not strike back" has always been Nehru's mantra before the war.
Therefore, China's great man Mao Zedong decisively ordered China's army to carry out a "lesson-based" attack on India. Immediately, China's army began to deploy at an alarming rate. In just 12 days, China army assembled 1 troops (military number 18, about 30,000 people). And guide the three Indian brigades to enter the ambush positions preset by the Indian army. Quickly wiped out most of the 1 brigades. The rest of the Indian army began to retreat. The China 1 quick detachment crossed the impossible snow-capped mountains (the fighting time was cleverly controlled after the flood period of the main rivers on the battlefield and before the mountain was closed by heavy snow in February 65438), and the retreat of the Indian army was prevented in the extremely cold glacier valley.
At this point, the Indian army was still trapped in the encirclement of the Indian army. Faced with this situation, when China's rapid detachment intercepted his back, its commander did not immediately strike. However, I mistakenly thought that I could rely on the huge superior firepower of the new Soviet-American equipment to carry out anti-assault and anti-encirclement. A major officer of the Indian Army sent a telegram to his family saying: With advanced weapons, we can completely defeat all the armies in China.
However, Brigadier General Richard Andrews, an American military expert stationed in India at that time, said: This is the "beginning of the war of annihilation" in China. We learned this technology many times during the Korean War.
The Indian military supply line to the front was completely cut off by the China army. The soldiers began to spread out in large areas when they were fighting for food. Immediately, China's army seized powerful fighter planes and began to launch a "Chinese-style" annihilation war. Just eight hours. India's two main forces, the so-called "East Asia 1 2 Brigade", were completely annihilated.
At this point, China's army moved on. Its advance troops are nearly 50 kilometers outside the Indian capital New Delhi. It fought 2 12 km in India. At this time, however, the China government made a decision that surprised the Indians, and China's army began to retreat quickly. China officially declared the end of the Sino-Indian self-defense war in the later period. In addition, China returned 3,968 prisoners of war, including Brigadier General Darvi of the 7th Brigade of the Indian Army, and all weapons and equipment seized by the Indian Army.
In the whole self-defense counterattack, the China army annihilated three Indian brigades (7th Brigade, 62nd Brigade and 4th Artillery Brigade), basically annihilated three Indian brigades (112nd Brigade, 48th Brigade and 65th Brigade), and annihilated the 5th Brigade, 67th Brigade and165433 Brigade. 722 people were killed (including 82 officers and 640 soldiers) and injured 1697 (including officers 173 and soldiers 1524). The casualty ratio between China and India is 1: 6.
This war shattered India's "forward policy" in one fell swoop and maintained a peaceful situation on the Sino-Indian border for 50 years, exceeding the estimated "130 years of war" at that time. Most importantly, China's army defeated the two most powerful military camps in the world at that time, NATO and India supported by the Warsaw Pact. This is impossible for any country, even under the current advanced conditions.
The Press Records Bureau of the Associated Press of the United States filmed some little-known information films, telling some local wars between China and India filmed by American war correspondents in India. Although, at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were in the cold war. However, as two major military powers with Indian background, the United States and the Soviet Union also conducted detailed analysis and secret information sharing this time. So in fact, that war can be said to be at an absolute disadvantage of China 1:3. On the face of it, China won the Indian race. However, the fact is that winning India is equivalent to China's defeat of the two major military world powers, the United States and the Soviet Union.
Howard Benjamin, a former stationed official of the US Far East Intelligence Military Center, commented on this war: "This is the stupidest war in India. At that time, the Indian government urgently received 13 army divisions and 2 air force divisions from the former Soviet Union. As the military in Washington at that time, the embarrassing result of the "China-US-Korea War" urgently needed to win a war against China in the military field. In this war, the Communist Party of China (CPC) defeated the two most powerful military camps in the world at that time, NATO and India supported by the Warsaw Pact. In other words, CCP defeated the military actions of the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.