India - China border clashes force Indian Army to train troops in hand to hand combat | Dispatch

Описание: In November 1996, India and China signed an agreement that bars soldiers from both sides from using firearms along the Line of Actual Control, the so-called border.

In May, 2020 PLA crossed the border with India and occupied strategic locations. Since then both countries are locked in a stand-off and deployed thousands of troops and arms and artillery along the border.

Much of the military-related infrastructure of China was built near the LAC shortly after August 5, 2019, when India divided Indian administered-Kashmir into the federally governed union territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.

China says Ladakh is a disputed territory and the decision undermined its territorial sovereignty.

Using 15 different techniques borrowed from Israeli and Japanese martial arts, Indian soldiers guarding the border with China are undergoing special training for hand to hand combat.

India felt the need to train its soldiers in hand-to-hand combat after the Chinese PLA in June 2020 used nail-studded rods and clubs wrapped with barbed wire to hunt down Indian soldiers in Galwan valley in Ladakh in high Himalayas.

At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in that clash and over 1000 square kilometres of territory was grabbed by the Chinese PLA without firing a bullet.

The PLA continued its expansionist plans along the Indian border and when resisted they pushed back Indian soldiers using hand-to-hand combat.

The trainee soldiers form two groups and simulate the violent clashes that took place along the LAC.

They use punches and kicks to debilitate the adversary by attacking their groins or other weaker areas of the body.

And if the clashes turn violent, these Indian soldiers are being trained in using nail-studded rods, baseball bats, clubs wrapped with barbed wire, or knives to attack.
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