The use of the Indian Air Force would have slowed the Chinese offensive considerably during the 1962 Sino-Indian war, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said in a recorded video message on Wednesday.

He added that it may have been termed as “escalatory" then, but that is not the case now, as seen in ‘Operation Sindoor’.

His video message, wherein he spoke about the war with China 63 years ago, was played during the release of the revised autobiography of the late Lieutenant General SPP Thorat, ‘Reveille to Retreat’, in Pune.

Lt Gen Thorat was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, in the lead-up to the Sino-Indian war.

Chauhan also noted the forward policy should not have been applied uniformly to Ladakh and NEFA (North-East Frontier Agency) or present-day A

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