The purpose of constituting the Study Group on Defence Preparedness was to delve into the issues confronting the nation’s defence preparedness. The focus herein was directed at preservation of the nation’s territorial integrity in the face of China’s persistence in realigning, unilaterally and by the use of military force, the traditional Indo-Tibet Border; the long-continuing military confrontation astride the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) is an obvious preliminary to China’s that grand design.

In its quest for possessing a ‘word class’ military that can secure its lead role in global affairs, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been seriously engaged in building up a vast inventory of latest technology and highly lethal military arsenal. Considering the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) explicitly articulated purpose of satiating its hegemonic ambitions through acts of militarist usurpations, that build-up cannot be but a subject of much concern among the PRC’s intended targets. Needless to state that India is one of its primary marks.