Advisers to the Congress high command have been made to bear the cross for the losses suffered, insulating the top echelons from blame.
The credit for India’s victory in the 1965 and 1971 wars was given to the prime ministers at those times, but the responsibility for the defeat against China in the 1962 war was placed squarely on the shoulders of then defence minister V K Krishna Menon. Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister then, did not have to share the burden.
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