Henderson brooks - Bhagat report.( Sino - Indian war of 1962)

Friends in this article we will discuss on HENDERSON BROOKS - BHAGAT REPORT.

This is a classified report prepared by two Indian Army officers , Lieutenant-General Henderson Brooks and Brigadier Premindra Singh Bhagat on Sino - Indian war of 1962.

This report is a 2 part report. The first part was leaked in 2014 by a retired journalist . Second Part deals with the enduring lessons of the Chinese aggression.

This report was supposed to be an " operations review" of the cause of the Indian Army's humiliating rout (a disorderly retreat of defeated troops) by the invading People's Liberation Army.

THE TWO INVESTIGATING OFFICER'S , HOWEVER , SKIRTED THE OPERATIONS REVIEW BY FOCUSING ON THE POLITICAL CAUSES OF THE ROUT OF THE WAR.

The report , instead of pinpointing the military aspects of the defeat , palmed off the blame on the political leadership.

In February 2014 , Australian Journalist Maxwell , released part 1 of the report where two Army chief's have recorded their opinions.The report blamed the indian political leadership for pursuing what the Chinese had called " forward policy" on the borders.

" According to at least one source who has seen the entire report and its annexures, there are telegrams and reports that may be embarrassing for the political and military establishment of those days. The source pointed out that most significant of them is some of the telegrams from Lt General BM Kaul, who disastrously commanded the newly-raised IV Corps along the border. 

These telegrams from Lt-Gen Kaul, sent to then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru among others, include references to his health, medical issues, weather etc at a time when he was supposed to be leading India's military operations in the latter part of 1962. The trivial conversations may not have been encouraged by Nehru but definitely not discouraged, the source said. 
Lt-Gen Kaul's tendency to sidestep his military chain of command and talk to the political masters directly is documented partially in the 126-page report that has become public now. Sans its annexures, the report was released earlier this week by Australian journalist Neville Maxwell, who worked in India during the war period for a British newspaper and later wrote a book on the topic. 

In fact, the report nails Lt-Gen Kaul's lack of respect for military hierarchy, his embarrassing leadership practices, and direct access to the political leaders. The report directly blames him for poor planning and conduct of operations. 

The report says the signal from the Army headquarters on October 4, 1962, announcing the formation of 4 Corps headquartered at Tezpur and appointing Lt-Gen Kaul as its chief was a surprise. This corps was given the responsibility for the whole Indo-Tibetan border in the Eastern Command on the same day. 

In one part of the report, it discusses a trip Lt-Gen Kaul undertook to Dhola area, along with many of his senior officers. Through most of the route Lt-Gen Kaul was carried by a porter, which did not leave a good impression among hundreds of soldiers who saw the bizarre journey of the general. 

The report gives a few instances of Lt-Gen Kaul's powerful political links in Delhi. On October 17 when he took ill, a special plane was flown from Delhi with a doctor to evacuate him. His immediate boss, the eastern army commander, and the chief of medical services of the command had no clue of the evacuation. The aircraft was sent by defence minister VK Krishna Menon, the report points out. A distant relative of Nehru, Lt-Gen Kaul was also Menon's favourite military general.  " (TIMES OF INDIA")

CRIMEAN CRISIS -

Friends in this article we will discuss one very important international matter.  I hope you might have heard in news about 2014 CRIMEAN Crisis, Pro-Russian protest in Ukraine, and about Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Let’s go through this matter in detail.

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km² (233,062 sq mi)—including Crimea, which is claimed and controlled by neighboring Russia—making it the largest country entirely within Europe. Ukraine borders Russia to the east, northeast and south, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

Ukraine has long been a global breadbasket due to its extensive, fertile farmlands. As of 2011, it was the world's third-largest grain exporter with that year's harvest being much larger than average. Ukraine is one of ten most attractive agricultural land acquisition regions. Additionally, the country has a well-developed manufacturing sector, particularly in aerospace and industrial equipment.

Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement

The Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement is a treaty between the European Union (EU) and Ukraine that establishes a political association between the two parties. The parties committed to cooperate and converge policy, legislation, and regulation across a broad range of areas, including equal rights for workers, steps towards visa-free movement of people, the exchange of information and staff in the area of justice, the modernization of Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and access to the European Investment Bank. The parties committed to regular summit meetings, and meetings among ministers, other officials, and experts.

The agreement commits Ukraine to economic, judicial and financial reforms to converge its policies and legislation to those of the European Union. Ukraine committed to gradually conform to EU technical and consumer standards. The EU agreed to provide Ukraine with political and financial support, access to research and knowledge, and preferential access to EU markets. The agreement commits both parties to promote a gradual convergence toward the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy and European Defense Agency policies.

The agreement comes after more than two decades in which both parties sought to establish closer ties with each other. On one hand, the European Union wants to ensure that its imports of grain and natural gas from Ukraine, as well as its exports of goods to Ukraine, are not threatened by instability in the region, believing that instability can eventually be reduced through sociopolitical and economic reforms in Ukraine. Ukraine, on the other hand, wants to increase its exports by benefiting from free trade with the European Union while attracting desirable external investments, as well as establishing closer ties with a sociopolitical entity to which many Ukrainians feel strong cultural connection.

The political section of the treaty was signed on 21 March 2014 after a series of events that had stalled its ratification culminated in a revolution in Ukraine and the ousting of the then incumbent President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. This ousting was sparked by Yanukovych's refusal to sign the agreement under pressure from Russia—Ukraine's second largest trading partner—who instead presented an association with the Russian-led customs union between Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia as an alternative.

  Crimean peninsula

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Crimean Crisis –

The Crimean crisis is an ongoing international crisis principally involving Russia and Ukraine. Most developments apply to the Crimean Peninsula, a multi-ethnic region which until February 2014 was administered by Ukraine as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the administratively separate municipality of Sevastopol, both are populated by an ethnic Russian majority and a minority of both ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars. Currently, the Crimean Peninsula is administered by the Russian Federation as the Crimean Federal District.

The crisis unfolded in late February 2014 in the aftermath of the Ukrainian Revolution, which resulted in President Viktor Yanukovych's impeachment by the Ukrainian parliament after his flight from the capital, setting May 25 for a new presidential election, the appointment of an interim President, and the formation of an interim government. The Yatsenyuk Government attained recognition from Western countries. However, the Russian government held that Yanukovych was illegally impeached and continues to regard him as Ukraine’s last democratically elected and legitimate president, while considering the Yatsenyuk government illegitimate and the result of a coup d'etat.

On 1 March, regional state administration buildings (RSAs) in various eastern Ukraine  were briefly occupied by pro-Russian activists. By 11 March, all occupations had ended, after units of the local police and the Security Service of Ukraine(SBU) re-took the buildings. In Donetsk, protests have descended into violence on multiple occasions, including on 13 March where one pro-Kiev protester was stabbed to death. In Kharkiv, Patriots of Ukraine members shot dead a pro-Russian protester and a passerby on the night of 15 March when pro-Russian protesters attacked the Right Sector headquarters.

According to officials and pro-government eyewitness accounts not all attendees of the protests are Ukrainian nationals; but a significant number of them are Russian citizens. Pro-Russian activists, meanwhile, say that pro-Ukrainian counter-protesters consist of paid attendees and students who are under threat of expulsion from their universities (if they fail to attend the pro-Ukrainian rallies).^] Donetsk oblast governor Serhiy Taruta alleges that rallies in Donetsk contain ex-convicts and others who traveled from Crimea. Ukraine's security forces and border guards since 4 March have denied more than 8,200 Russians into the country as of 25 March. On 27 March, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Parubiy said that between 500 and 700 Russians were being denied entry daily.

Following the events of the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, a secession crisis began on Ukraine's Russian-leaning Crimean Peninsula. In late February 2014, unidentified armed forces began to take over the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. Ukraine and Western commentators identified the gunmen as Russian Special Forces and other paramilitaries.

Russia, which has various strategic interests in and historical ties to Crimea, insists that the forces did not include Russian troops, but only local self defense forces, and that the up to 25,000 troops Russia is allowed to station in Sevastopol and the Crimea under the 1997 Russia-Ukraine Agreement extended in 2010 at Kharkiv remained uninvolved and within the treaty's limits prior to the referendum and reunification of Crimea with Russia. Their subsequent open involvement was said to be in response to the will of the local population  and as a humanitarian effort to protect ethnic Russians in the region. Russia does not recognize the newly installed interim government in Ukraine, instead recognizing ousted-President Viktor Yanukovych  whose request for intervention has also been cited. The Ukrainian military reaction has been limited to a mobilization of Ukraine's armed forces and reserves. As of 3 March, Russia has stated that its troops would stay until the political situation was "normalised".

The Supreme Council of Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine, and held a referendum on 16 March 2014 on whether Crimea should join the Russian Federation or remain part of Ukraine with the autonomy it had in 1992. The referendum resulted in a reported turnout of over 81%, where over 95% of voters supported Crimea joining the Russian Federation. The events caused alarm among the Crimean Tatar ethnic group, whose members were deported en masse to Central Asia in 1944 under orders from Joseph Stalin, claiming a huge death toll. On 27 March 2014, a United Nations General Assembly resolution approved by 59% of the member states declared the Crimea referendum invalid and called on all States, international organizations and specialized agencies not to recognize any alteration of the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on the basis of 16 March referendum.

Internationally, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Georgia, Moldova, Turkey, Australia  and the European Union condemned Russia, accusing it of breaking international law and violating Ukrainian sovereignty. The US, EU, and Canada threatened and later implemented sanctions against Russian individuals considered to be involved based on "Russia's clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity", to which Russia responded in kind. China, India and many developing countries remained relatively neutral.

Strategic Importance -

The Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupies most of the Crimean peninsula with only the Strait of Kerch separating it from Russia to the east by a short 15 kilometres (9.3 mi). Crimea is a part of Ukraine but, as an autonomous republic, it has its own constitution. According to the 2001 census, 58% of the two million residents of Crimea are ethnic Russians, 24% are ethnic Ukrainians, and 12% are Crimean Tatars. As tensions escalated in the region, Russia intervened under the justification that it must "protect Russian civilians and military in Ukraine".[a]

The Russian-Ukrainian Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet, signed in 1997 and prolonged in 2010, determined the status of the military bases and vessels in Crimea. Russia is allowed to maintain up to 25,000 troops, 24 artillery systems (with a caliber smaller than 100 mm), 132 armored vehicles, and 22 military planes, on the Crimean and Sevastopol. The Russian Black Sea fleet is allowed to stay in Crimea until 2042.

Location of the Port of Sevastopol and Kacha in relation to Crimea and Russia. Newly stationed soldiers have been posted inDzhankoy,[citation needed] a major transportation hubin the Crimean peninsula where two major railways and two major European highways pass. Dzhankoy is also home to many industrial factories and is considered an entry point to Crimea.

At the same time, the Port of Sevastopol and the town of Kacha are located in Sevastopol, a city in the southwestern area of the peninsula that does not belong to Crimea administratively. Both locations hold key strategic value for Russia, economically and militarily.[100] The Port of Sevastopol, which Russia currently leases from Ukraine, is considered a key hold for maritime routes between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, and by extension the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.[101] It is also one of the few warm deepwater ports in the Black Sea available to Russia.

As the Ukrainian revolution unfolded—and as the newly installed Ukrainian government began to distance itself from Russia—it may have been the case that Russia felt that its access to the port and its military bases in the Crimean peninsula were in jeopardy, according to an analyst at the CNA corporation. On the other hand, the town of Kacha serves as military headquarters for Russia's 25th Independent Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment (25th AHR) and the 917th Independent Composite Air Regiment (917th ICAR) of the Black Sea Fleet Naval Air Force. Ensuring access to the port and Russia's military bases in the Crimean peninsula may have been two of the main factors that sparked Russia's military intervention, according to an analyst at the CNA corporation, adding that it is however hard to speculate on motivations.

Petroleum resources

Crimea also possesses several natural gas fields both onshore andoffshore, all connected to Ukraine's pipeline system. The inland fields are located in Chornomorske and Dzhankoy, while offshore fields are located in the western coast in the Black Sea and in the northeastern coast in the Azov Sea .

Russian Prime Minister Medevdev pledged to make the peninsula’s development a “national priority”. A special government ministry has been created in Moscow to oversee Crimea’s development as a special economic zone with lower taxes and reduced bureaucracy to attract investor. Moscow would also subsidize air fares to make Crimea as popular with Russian tourists as it used to be in soviet times.

Russia and US have agreed to work for a diplomatic solution in the Ukraine crisis through an inclusive constitutional reform.

Friends most of the content is from Wikipedia and “ The Hindu “ news paper. I just consolidated it. You fill daily find update on this matter in leading news paper. So keep yourself updated.

JAI HIND..

5 mins with SSB interviewer..

Hello everyone.  I hope you all guys are fine n must be doing well in your life. Today I m writing this article after 6 or 7 months. First of all I want to apologies to all my readers for not replying to your mails but will surely do.

Friends I got shifted to Mumbai. Lovely city. Full of energy n enthusiasm. I met with various people n they all are very beautiful n lovely. In the flat in which I m staying is a flat of retired defense personal. Today I got chance to meet him. I spent some time with him n I m very lucky because I got so many things to learn. I would definitely like to share our conversation with you all.  I hope it will inspire n motivate you.

I was shaving when someone knocked at the door..

Me - coming .
( I opened the door having raser in my hand n shaving foam on my face. A sardar jee was standing. Around 6 feet tall wearing aviator n formal suit.)

Me - yes sir.

Sardar jee (sj) - Good morning.  I came to visit my flat. I m the owner. Can I come inside. Sorry for not informing you before coming here.

Me - please come inside.
 ( then we had normal chit chat n after that I asked what do you do sir n he replied that he is a retired defense personal. )

Me - wow great sir . In which wing of defense you were working sir?

Sj - I was in army . I was interviewer in ssb. Do you  know what ssb is?

(I was like ohh my god. Today I got an opportunity to speak to an interviewer from ssb . )

Me - yes sir of course I know about ssb's. Sir I want to know few things about this process of interview.

Sj -  Have you ever been to any ssb?

Me - yes sir. 1AFSB Dehradun n 14SSC Allahabad.

Sj - what was your result?

Me - sir I got recommended.

(Then he asked me the reasons n I told him. After listening me  he said HARD LUCK.)

Me - yes sir my hard luck.

Sj - No , it's our hard luck that you are not into services.

( the moment he said this I felt so proud n happy that I can't express n got little emotional)

I asked

Me- sir why it happens that sometimes you select a guy who  not at all deserve to become an officer of defense services. Many deserving candidates are waiting outside n they are much more talented. This attitude hurt them a lot . Why don't you guys give them a reason for not getting selected.

Sj -  we are there to select you guys . We need officers but we can't compromise with selection criteria. MAY BE YOU ARE HAVING ALL QUALITIES BUT HOW WOULD I COME TO KNOW IF YOU WILL NOT REPRESENT THEM GENUINELY. MOST OF THEM LIES. THEY THINK WE ARE FOOLS. SOME TRY TO DO EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL FEW EVEN CRY ALSO. PLEASE BE GENUINE . DEVELOP THE QUALITIES WHICH YOU EASILY CAN.

Me - Sir do you think all the recommended candidates possess all officer like qualities?

Sj - We know they are young civilians . So we do not expect much. We will develop most of the qualities in our training academy but we need to make sure that this guy is genuine and can be trained n yes i do accept that some time we also commit mistake.

Sj - You know Utkarsh my own son applied 16 times but he didn't received his recommendation. I only suggest each n every aspirant to read a lot . To do what they think is very difficult or impossible for them so that they can develop trust n confidence which is the key to get into defense services n all above be truthful n genuine.

Me - Got it Sir.

Sj - Now i have to leave. Will meet you soon. It was nice talking to you.

Me - Thank you sir for sharing your knowledge n experience with me.

{ Then he left. Friends what i seeing now a days is that most of the youth are suffering from inferiority complex n at the same time they lack acceptability. They started lying to themselves. They know inside what is lacking in them but they do not want to improve it. Those who are suffering from inferiority they start loosing their confidence even if they are right. why this is happening? I am getting mails that aspirants want to speak to Fighter Pilots because they have some doubts. Some ask that whether they will get family accommodation or not after commissioning . Some ask about pensions also. Guys these all things are not important at this stage. First get into service or get recommended after that start thinking for family accommodation n  pension.

Before trusting SSB or any other person in this world , you should start trusting yourself first. Nothing is difficult my friends. Start achieving all those task which you think is difficult because once you will achieve , you will gain lot of self confidence. Trust Me.

You have decided that you will join armed forces it means you will join none of the force in this world can stop you until n unless you your self want to quit and let this world know my loved ones that WE NEVER QUIT.


                                             NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP...


JAI HIND..