"If you want to defeat China, unless God himself goes to war with a steel helmet!" This is the unanimous impression left by the Volunteer Army on the US army after the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in July 1953, and many US soldiers even have a psychological shadow on the volunteer army's charge, and whenever they hear this sound, they will not stop panicking and trembling. You know, at that time, the weapons, equipment and logistics of the volunteer army were very different from those of the US army.
The U.S. military, from tanks, planes, artillery, to grenades or pistols, are all the most advanced in the world, and the volunteers are not only very backward in weapons and equipment, but also far inferior to the firepower support of the Us army. In the ice and snow, the volunteers wore single clothes and nibbled on potatoes frozen into ice cubes, and defeated the American troops wearing cotton uniforms and big fish and meat.
The victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea made the world aware of New China's strong will, firm determination, and strong ability to safeguard national security; after all, under the circumstance of such a huge disparity in military strength, it was possible to defeat the US military. However, after only 9 years, India forgot about this matter and brazenly launched the Sino-Indian war.
The final result was that it took only 5 months for the PLA to turn the war of aggression launched by India into its own capital defense war, in which our army continued the myth of undefeated on the Korean battlefield, and the name of the world's strongest army was once again confirmed.
So, in the Sino-Indian war of 1962, how big was the gap between the two sides? First of all, from the perspective of the will of the soldiers, our army is not afraid of sacrifice and is not afraid of a strong enemy, while the Indian army is a strong foreign force and lacks courage, according to the recollections of many veterans who participated in the war, as soon as the Sino-Indian war began, many Indian soldiers fled, and to the back, where our army went, the enemy was unable to collapse.
In terms of specific tactics and tactics, the Indian army cannot be compared with our army at all, and decades of guerrilla warfare have made the combat effectiveness of our army far ahead of all the armies of other countries in the world. Therefore, even if India had the same military strength as the United States at that time, the end would only be failure, and it would only be failure.