Continued Delayed Procurements Will Hurt India's Preparedness Against China
As India and China stare down each other in various locations in Ladakh and across LAC, it is all about how well the Indian tiger is prepared to take on the Chinese dragon. Not only is China is numerically at an advantage against India, in terms of troops but its weapons systems are also vast and numerically more than that of India. Situation Add to that the psychological advantage of having captured over 38000 sq. km of Indian territory in Aksai Chin and being gifted 5200 sq. km of territory in the Shaksgam valley Karakoram tract by Pakistan. Not to mention the slow creeping capture of territory in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim by first sending in the nomads to graze cattle and sheep and then moving in the troops to permanently capture the grazing lands. However, none of these make China 9 feet tall, India has the resolve and its troops have the capability to inflict not only serious damage but actually seize territory inside China-occupied Tibet and China-occupied Xinjiang ( htt