Why China will never win a direct conflict with India
It is popular belief that wars have been won with military might alone and with the size of one’s arsenal. True, the size and might of an army does have a considerable edge and potential over an opponent. But more importantly, the fighting spirit and patriotic fervor of a nation and its armed forces have time and again proved otherwise that feebler armies with greater spirits have won much, much mightier opponents. Cases in point are Vietnam and Afghanistan. Both these nations have achieved the utterly unthinkable feat of driving away the greatest superpowers from their home turfs. The fierce fighting spirits of the Vietcong and the Mujahideen are world renowned. An important aspect that is commonly occurrent in both these cases is the external help that was clandestinely or otherwise provided to the feebler side. In the former, the Soviet Union was directly and heavily involved in the conflict, and provided large supplies of weaponry to the North Vietnamese forces. While Soviet com