AVAIL YOUR COPY NOW! April-July 2020 Volume 17 No. 2-3 `100.00 (India-Based Buyer Only) SP’s Military Yearbook 2019 SP’s AN SP GUIDE P UBLICATION www.spsmilitaryyearbook.com WWW.SPSLANDFORCES.COM ROUNDUP THE ONLY MAGAZINE IN ASIA-PACIFIC DEDICATED to LAND FORCES IN THIS ISSUE >> LEAD STORY ILLuSTratioN: SP Guide Publications / Vipul PAGE 3 Lessons from Ladakh Standoff Wakhan Corridor Territory ceded We keep repeating the mistakes. The by Pakistan to CLASHES ALONG Chinese PLA incursion in Ladakh, across the China in 1963 LAC, has been again a collective intelligence (Shaksgam Valley) failure for India. There is much to be CHINA THE LAC learned for India from the current scenario. Teram Shehr Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd) May 5 Indian and Gilgit Siachen Glacier Chinese soldiers PAGE 4 Pakistan clash at Pangong TSO lake. Disengagement to Demobilisation: Occupied Karakorm Resetting the Relations Pass May 10 Face-off at China is a master of spinning deceit Kashmir the Muguthang Valley and covert action exploiting strategy Baltistan in Sikkim. Skardu and statecraft as means of “Combative Depsang La May 21 Chinese coexistence” with opponents. Throughout Bilafond La NJ 9842 Aksai Chin troops enter into the their history Chinese have had their share Patrol Galwan River Valley of brutal conflicts at home and with Point 14 in Ladakh region. neighbours. LOC Zoji La Kargil Nubra Valley Galwan Valley May 24 Chinese Lt General J.K. Sharma (Retd) Line Of Pangong-TSO camps at 3 places: Control Leh Lake Hotspring, P14 and PAGE 5 P15. Way Ahead for the Indian Armed Forces Jammu & Shyok LADAKH June 15 Violent Face- Kashmir off” between Indian and Chinese Soldiers. LAC A Colonel and 19 Line soldiers martyred from the Indian side PAK of Actual while China (PLA) Control suffered 43 to 49 casualties including Demchok a Colonel, killed in INDIA the scuffle The threat of the virus is all-pervasive and to ensure Force Protection, an essential towards operational readiness, the Armed Forces have issued exhaustive instructions/guidelines F ACTS that Led to the Creation Lt General R.K. Jagga (Retd) PAGE 6 of PAKISTAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR Reading the Tea Leaves — PM at Frontline: Defining National Strategy Prime Minister’s personal appearance on the frontline has unequivocally reinforced (West of LOC) & CHINA OCCUPIED that entire of Ladakh is Indian Territory and any intrusion and aggression will be met with full might and resolve of the nation. With this the PM has clearly defined the KASHMIR (East of LAC) National Strategy. Lt General J.K. Sharma (Retd) The original State of J&K which acceded to India in october 1947 comprised PAGE 8 2,22,236 sq km. But today India is in physical occupation of only 1,06,566 sq Dhanush — ‘Make in India’ Success Story km of the original state of J&K. Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) is 72,935 sq km less 5,180 sq km of Shaksgam Valley leased to China in 1963. China occupied Kashmir (CoK) consists of 37,555 sq km of Aksai Chin plus Shaksgam and territory nibbled over the years, all totaling up to 42,735 sq km. LT GENERAL P. C. KatocH (Retd) newly created Pakistan. Radcliffe had never visited India earlier and probably had never Background seen a map in his life. He chaired two boundary Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd) Post Partition of undivided India in 1947, commissions, one for Punjab and one for Ben- the entire State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) gal, consisting of two Muslims and two non- PLUS was acceded to India by the then ruler of J&K, Muslims – none from military or with military Electronic Warfare – Denying Maharaja Hari Singh through an Instrument background. Over a Century of British rule in Electromagnetic Advantage to Enemy 9 Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd) of Accession signed on October 26, 1947 post India and five weeks to Partition the Country by massive Pakistan infiltration. For the Partition, a novice - Radcliffe! Mountbatten declared Inde- Weapon Locating and Battle Field British barrister Cyril Radcliffe arrived in Brit- pendence only on August 15 though the result- Surveillance Radars 10 ish India for the first time on July 8, 1947. He ing boundary award was announced on August Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd) was given exactly five weeks to draw the bor- 17. Radcliffe sailed back for England on August News in Brief / Special Reports 11 ders between an independent India and the 18, Partition along the Radcliffe Line ended in 2-3/2020 SP’s LAND FORCES 1 >> LEAD STORY COVID was overshadowed by military talks, both sides had Chinese camp and have sent a Battlefield Surveillance Radar China’s surprise action on the agreed to disengage but then clear message that India shall and Electronic Warfare are all Line of Actual Control (LAC) thus PLA has reestablished its posts resist every expansionist move systems of the moment. Dha- the lead article by Lt General and built ups at various points. with courage and resolve. The nush is another success story P.C. Katoch (Retd) gives a very In an article on the Disengage- visit has been a great morale of ‘Make in India’ which is also comprehensive background on ment and De-escalation, Lt booster for the troops on the included. how Pakistan Occupied Kash- General J.K. Sharma (Retd), a front line in Ladakh and whole This issue as usual wraps up mir (LOC) and China Occupied China expert warns not to take of the armed forces and their with the News Digest. All person- Kashmir (LAC) was created. As the Chinese pull-back on its face families. With special focus on nel who are involved in publish- a result the original State of J&K value as China’s history of back the strategy of some countries ing newspapers and magazines which acceded to India in Octo- stabbing is well known and can without mentioning China the like this one, are all Corona ber 1947 comprised 2,22,236 sq repeat itself. Prime Minister stated that “those Warriors as they are risking their km but today India is in physical The world and India are in who are driven by expansion- life to reach you all to keep you occupation of only 1,06,566 sq the grip of COVID-19 thus in an ism have always posed danger updated with key news. km of the original state of J&K. article on the subject Lt General to the world. History bears tes- Happy reading! Since then problems on LAC R.K. Jagga (Retd) defines the timony that such forces have and LOC continue. role of Armed Forces under the either been destroyed or forced EDITORIAL Regarding lessons learnt threat of the virus and how to to return back. It is due to this from the LAC in Ladakh, Lt Gen- keep them operationally fit in the experience that world is coming eral Katoch laments the norm to all pervasive environment of the together against expansionism”. appoint committees after conflict COVID-19. The PMs trip was followed by a situations whose reports are Writing about the unsched- two day trip by Defence Minister either buried or lessons forgot- uled and surprise landing of Rajnath Singh to LAC and LOC ten. Result is that we tend to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at from July 17-18. keep repeating our mistakes Leh on July 3, 2020, along with Then there are a few articles thus the author has suggested the CDS and the COAS, Lt Gen- on technologies which play a 12 points for focus. We hope eral J.K. Sharma (Retd) claims key role specially in gathering somebody higher up is listening. that India has seized the initia- intelligence and border manage- JAYANT BARANWAL After protracted military-to- tive and taken the challenge to ment. Weapon Locating Radar, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief PHoToGrAPH: INC violence that killed one million people and displaced 12 million. In 1962 when Nehru The original State of J&K which acceded directed the Army to throw to India in October 1947 comprised 2,22,236 sq km. Independent India’s bor- PLA out of one illegally der in the northwest touched Wakhan Cor- ridor of Afghanistan and border to north occupied post, China with China Occupied Tibet (COT). Pakistan had no border with China. But today India launched a massive pre- is in physical occupation of only 1,06,566 sq km of the 2,22,236 sq km of the origi- planned invasion. In 1963, nal state of J&K. Pakistan occupied Kashmir Pakistan leased Shaksgam (POK) is 72,935 sq km less 5,180 sq km of Shaksgam Valley (Indian Territory) illegally Valley in Pakistan leased to China in 1963. China Occupied Kashmir (COK) consists of 37,555 sq km of occupied Kashmir (POK) Aksai Chin plus 5,180 sq km Shaksgam and territory nibbled over the years, all total- to China in exchange ing up to 42,735 sq km. US and regional for military and nuclear Pakistani media had reported in February File Photo: India’s first Home Minister Sardar Patel with 2012 that Pakistan was considering leasing India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru Gilgit-Baltistan (72,971 sq km) to China for technology. 50 years. Today we have a Line of Control Clement Atlee had become Prime Minis- fight communist threat of Russia and China (LOC) with Pakistan and Line of Actual ter of Britain but Churchill was still in the on borders of Kashmir. What an irony that Control (LAC) with China. advisory loop.