Investigate why India lost 1962 war:

Former Army official New Delhi, Nov 18: Contending that the Indian Army had an upper hand over the Chinese in the 1962 Sino-Indian War, former Director General of military operations Lt Gen P N Kathpalia on Tuesday sought an investigation to unravel the exact cause of India's defeat. "Our Army was better equipped ... had good knowledge of the terrain and had carried out reconnaissance missions, but despite this we lost. It is a mystery and needs to be investigated," he said here. Lt Gen Kathpalia was speaking at a function organised by the Shyama Prasad Mookherjee Research Foundation to commemorate the valour of Indian soldiers who laid down their lives fighting the Chinese Army in one of the bloodiest battles on this day 46 years ago in Chushul, a frontier post in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. Rubbishing theories that Indian Army surrendered cheaply to the Chinese forces, he claimed that the Indian Army, in fact, did not fight and where it fought it won. "We lost without fighting a war. Where we fought we won," he said, referring to the war in Chushul where just 114 Indian soldiers accounted for as many as 1,200 Chinese soldiers and spoiled their plans to further invade into Indian territory. Several other speakers and former war veterans also blamed the policies of the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for India's defeat. They alleged that the then leadership had unequivocal faith in China despite the warning of the first Home Minister Sardar Patel and that there was a collective failure of Intelligence agencies. The foundation's director Tarun Vijay, who visited Chushul early this month, also sought the government's attention to improving civic amenities for the locals there. Bureau Report
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Not least among the reasons why India lost in 62 against China was Nehru`s blind trust of the Chinese - which trust he formed because he was supping quite a lot with the Indian commies. -K.Venugopal - Mumbai