The Reason behind defeat of India in 1962

The Main Reason For the defeat of India

• The then prime minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was in Nepal that made the lack of administration and better planning.
  
  
  
• On the other hand, the defense minister of India  Krishna Menon was in London when the war had started. This further ended the collaboration of India's administration and resulted in bad condition of the control.  
  
  
  
• Krishna Menon clearly acclaimed that the Navy and Air Force should not take place in the war as it would make the war long and international. 
• The Indian soldiers had to face a lack of bullets making then to fight with the sharp knife on the front side of the gun called Banet. A sourse acclaimed that Indian soldiers that they had only 250-300 bullets to fire but the Sino soldiers had a abundant number of bullets.
• The another problem that Indian soldiers ha to face is the lack of backup support of the artilleries and cannons while the Sino soldiers had abundant number of the back up with them. 
• The lieutenant colonel of the Arunachal Pradesh at that time was the family member of Jawaharlal Nehru. So the  lieutenant  colonel of Arunachal Pradesh directly contacted to Nehru making a lack of communication between. 
• The Indian soldiers even do not have clothes and shoes to better fight for the cold temperatures.
• By the Chinese artillery the food supply road chain was broken that cause the Indians soldiers to fight half stomach.

       DID YOU KNOW

The Indian official at the time of the war the 

roads were not build near 

the border because 

they thought that the Chinese at the time

of war can use the 

roads to travel inside India.

a post by Devesh