The Duke of Wellington’s description of the Battle of Waterloo — “The nearest run thing you ever saw in your life, by God!” — also describes the Sino-Indian stand-off at Doklam that ended last month in a mutual pullback. But we must also consider what might have happened had it come to hostilities, and the frank answer would be: Besides China’s infrastructure and equipment advantages on the land border, India would have been caught short even in the theatre where it enjoys strategic advantage over China — the maritime domain in the Indian ...
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