In the 1950s and 1960s, India not only had a leadership that was fairly clueless about geopolitical affairs, its armed forces, which it had inherited from the British, were also in a state of limbo. During World War II, various regiments of the Indian Army had earned their spurs in modern warfare and emerged with enhanced reputations. However, even though the Indianization of the armed forces had begun, the seniormost officers at the time had hardly even commanded infantry battalions, with just one or two having made brigadier by the time the war ended.
