Tag: Galwan River

43 PLA soldiers dead; some held hostage, returned to China: India minister

By defence.capital on June 20, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

New Delhi: An Indian minister, a former army chief at that, today endorsed figures of 43 Chinese soldiers being dead in the June 15 clash with Indian soldiers at the Galwan valley in Ladakh, where the two nations’ armies are on a border face-off since the first week […]

India-China Face-Off in Ladakh: Galwan is an inflection point long overdue

By defence.capital on June 20, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

(Editor’s Note: The opinions are that of the writer’s.) By Lieutenant General Vinod Bhatia On 17 June 2020, as news of the casualties of Sino-Indian military clash in the Galwan valley shocked India, Clausewitz‘s ghost tweeted an ominous warning from his treatise, ‘On War‘: “Military forces in contact can […]