Kargil 2.0 on the eastern border

• Gen Panag: We played into the Chinese hands. We kept treating a military situation as a border incident.




• Bharat Karnad: An out and out army fiasco: “A lot of disengagement has happened,” said the army chief General MM Naravane. “We have had a fruitful dialogue with the Chinese, it will continue and by and by the situation will improve." Naravane’s tone hints at this whole ruckus being due to some small misunderstanding over an indistinct border, nothing that a bit of pow-wowing won’t clear up.
  
  The reality, however, is that there is now permanent stationing of PLA troops deep inside Indian territory in the Galwan and the Pangong sectors. As far as the Chinese are concerned the newly realigned LAC is something India can take it or lump it. There’s no third option, all the talks and negotiating will end up doing is embroider this fact.



• Wholeness: