Chinese army strategist Sun Tzu in his well-known e-book “Art of War” wrote means again in sixth century BC that the supreme artwork of conflict is to subdue the enemy with out combating. It is to his credit score that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and Communist occasion mouthpieces use the identical weapons of psychological warfare in opposition to the Indian troops deployed in Ladakh and India even right now.
After the Indian Army outflanked the PLA on Rezang La- Rechin La ridge line south of Pangong Tso on August 29-30 and re-positioned its troops to dominate the heights of Finger four spur on the north financial institution of the lake, the Chinese Army first tried to militarily muscle the adversary by shifting in tanks and infantry fight automobiles. Rather than be cowed by the PLA energy, the Indian Army made it clear that there can be retaliation if the purple line is breached on both banks.
While the Indian Army was not amused by Chinese army ways, the army commanders rolled up in mirth after PLA troops on Finger four beginning belting out Punjabi numbers to melt up the adversary into reducing their guard on the fiercely-contested mountainous spur. If the north financial institution of Pangong Tso was jiving to Punjabi songs on PLA loudspeakers, a battery of loudspeakers have been deployed by the Red Army at their Moldo Garrison in Chushul sector to remind the Indian troops of, what they declare, is the folly of their political masters.
On the southern banks of Pangong Tso, the Chinese loudspeakers advised Indian troops in chaste Hindi concerning the futility of being deployed at these heights in winter season on the whims and fancies of Indian politicians again in Delhi. The entire concept of PLA is to pull down the morale of Indian troops and create dissatisfaction among the many troopers that they don’t at all times get scorching steaming meals, logistics and a snowy winter forward.
According to a former Indian Army chief, the PLA used the identical loudspeaker ways in 1962 skirmishes within the western and jap sectors as nicely through the 1967 Nathu La skirmish. “But the Indian troops were foxed about the Punjabi songs on Finger 4. Maybe, the PLA thought that troops from Punjab were holding on to the higher heights of Finger 4 feature,” mentioned the previous military chief.
While the Red Army is utilizing psy-ops at Pangong Tso in opposition to the Indian Army, a Chinese Communist occasion mouthpiece has additionally been tweeting its coronary heart out to remind the Indian political management concerning the lack of face in 1962, the necessity for India to get well its financial system that, it says, has sunk to abysmal depth and to examine the rampant unfold of corona virus in India with out mentioning that the virus originated in Wuhan. The propaganda paper and its on-line web site additionally describes the Modi authorities’s robust stance on the Ladakh friction as a tactic to divert consideration from home strife.
Incidentally, the identical holds true for Chinese communist occasion common secretary Xi Jinping who initiated PLA aggression in Ladakh to divert consideration.
