Recently, India’s Chief of the Army Staff, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, reassuringly said in May at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses that the Indian Army remains “alive” to a “two-front” war. Krishna Menon had both believed that the threat to India’s security came principally from Pakistan. Despite deteriorating India-China relations in the late-1950s, neither Nehru nor Krishna Menon had contemplated a war between the two countries. Krishna Menon could go to any lengths to convince others of this point of view. With the troop deployment of six Chinese soldiers to one Indian, the Indian Army could have been facing an adventure.

Source: The Hindu June 21, 2020 18:32 UTC