The Sino-Indian War

In October 1962, after several years of tension and border clashes, China attacked with a corps-size army across the Sino-Indian border. “A brief war fought on three fronts resulted in a comprehensive Chinese victory. China invaded in the east, mostly for effect, before withdrawing a month later to the line of actual control.”1 Through two major offensives, the Chinese defeated India’s border troops in the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) and the Aksai Chin (India’s Kashmir and Jammu province in the Ladakh Range). After the Chinese seized several Indian border-defense bases and threatened the interior, Beijing declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew with no political conditions.