Former Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Wednesday repudiated former Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa's diction that the 1971 Bangladesh war debacle was a political defeat and not the defeat of the Pak military.
"The fact is that we have said that if you do something to us we will do something to you and that will be proportionate even more than what you have done to us. That is the message that is gone across and which is the important message. The larger picture and the message that has gone is
Indian Army has given "as good as they got" to the Chinese People's Liberation Army during Galwan clash that took place in 2020, said General (Retd) Manoj Mukund Naravane, former Indian Army chief.
General Naravane said that during briefings, the Indian Army gives a clear and fair picture of what had happened in an incident to the political leadership.
India reserves the right to take any action that it deems fit if China violates the terms of the 1993 agreement, former Army Chief General MM Naravane said while stressing that the neighbouring country is violating the agreement "time and again".
Emphasizing that India is aware of all the developments that are happening across the world, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, former Indian Army chief said that the Indian Armed Forces are always ready to face whatever is thrown at the country.
General Naravane asked if the Chinese army (People's Liberation Army) has gone down to the level of "prehistoric times" by using "clubs and barbed wires".
Political establishment in China has to be "receptive to change" if they really want peace and tranquility in the region, said General Manoj Mukund Naravane, former Indian Army chief.
His remarks came days after the attempts by People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops to transgress the LAC in Yangtse area of Tawang Sector in Arunachal Pradesh with the Indian Army thwarting the attempt to change the status quo.
General Munir has his hands full with the TTP-Afghan Taliban, politics and internal dynamics of the army leadership. The TTP cannot be pushed back without dealing with the Afghan Taliban as it is the Taliban which is protecting the TTP.
Army Chief General Manoj Pandey on Saturday remembered India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) late Gen Bipin Rawat and said that he had had boundless energy.