Secret report on India-China war in 1962 made public. The report was authored by Lieutenant General Henderson Brooks and Brigadier P S Bhagat, then commandant of the Indian Military Academy, soon after the war. It was commissioned by Lt General J N Chaudhuri who had just taken over as chief of Army staff in 1962. It continues to be considered classified by the Indian government. As late as April 2010, defence minister AK Antony told Parliament that the contents of the report are not only extremely sensitive but are of current operational value. Maxwell, who wrote a controversial account of the reasons that led to Indias defeat in his work, Indias China War, says on his website that he has always had access to the report and had waited for it to be declassified. He says he has now decided to put a large part of the report in the public domain because of Indias unwillingness to release it. While the Nehru governments forward policy has been widely analyzed and criticized as being a contributor, Maxwell says on his website that the report holds Indias first prime minister personally responsible for the war. The reasons for the long-term withholding of the report must be political, indeed probably partisan, perhaps even familial, says Maxwell.
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