In 1962, in the context of India's continued unreasonable provocations, our army gave a resolute military counterattack, and within a month, at the cost of more than 1,000 people, it achieved the effect of inflicting heavy losses on the Indian army, annihilating the enemy (killed, wounded and captured by the enemy) as high as 8,700 people, and the performance of both sides was high. However, India is the second most populous country in the world and its comprehensive national strength is relatively strong, so why did it suffer a one-sided defeat in the face of the squadron in this war?
First of all, the squadron is good at fighting. Whether an army is strong or not and whether it can win a war depends not only on the overall national strength and the intensity of national defense investment, but also on the actual combat experience and quality of the officers and men at that time. In other words, it is not that India's national strength is inadequate, and the strength of the combat effectiveness of a ** team depends to a large extent on whether its main force is often in a state of actual combat. For example, the Vietnamese army in the 70s of the last century and the Iraqi army in the 90s were not world powers, but their armies fought for a long time and their strength was quite strong, and the surrounding countries were deeply afraid of them. Since the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea ended in 1953, and the real withdrawal of troops was in the second half of 58 (beware of the counterattack of the US and South Korean troops), our army used a total of more than 2 million troops before and after Korea, close to half of the total strength of the country, so the actual combat ability of officers and soldiers has been maintained at the peak level. The counterattack against India was fought not long after, in 1962, and it was obvious that a large number of middle- and grass-roots commanders and fighters of our army had rich combat experience, and they were not on the same level as the Indian army units that lacked the training of the great war.
The second is the element of surprise. In 62, due to the border terrain and the fact that the Indian army had made provocative preparations, China counterattacked the Indian army in the plateau area, and the logistics support was very difficult, and even the use and movement of troops were restricted, and the overall conditions were much more difficult than India. In addition, the relative restraint adopted by the Chinese side towards the territorial dispute between China and India has made the Indian side more and more arrogant, and its psychological preparation for an actual war is obviously insufficient, believing that China will not send troops to fight. As a result, the Indian army, which was lightly enemy, was counterattacked by the squadron and was difficult to cope with for a while. Due to poor preparations, the Indian army alone had nearly 4,000 captured personnel in this battle, accounting for nearly half of the number of people annihilated, which shows that the battle was a complete mess. After the war, China returned these captives to India, along with a large number of captured officers.
Finally, the replacement of equipment has been completed, and the combat strength of our army has increased greatly. Due to the reasons for the early stage of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, China obtained 60 divisions of the Soviet-made ** within 3 years, and completed the imitation and army re-equipping in the mid-fifties, in terms of firepower and system unification, far exceeding the level of the Liberation War and the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the army has 56 guns and J-5 fighters, self-produced various types of artillery, 59 tanks and other powerful **. In particular, after the First Five-Year Plan and the aid of 156 industrial projects of the Soviet Union, China's military production and support capabilities before the 62-year counterattack war have made another leap. In the face of such a formidable opponent, the Indian army was really beyond the scope of its own strength, and it was not surprising that it was beaten.