B.K. Nehru has stated: Lieutenant General S.D. Verma, who had been Chief of the General Staff earlier, told me that he had written a long note on the inevitability of war with China, our lack of preparedness to face it and, therefore, the virtual certainty of our defeat. This had gone up to the Prime Minister through the Chief of Army Staff and the Defence Minister but had no effect. It had come back with a minute by the Prime Minister saying that a war with China was not possible during his lifetime… The ignorance at that level of the conditions on the ground were such that when the invasion
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