On the evening of 17 June 2017, top commanders in the Eastern Army Command were anxiously awaiting instructions from its top brass.
Thousands of kilometres away in the national capital, the atmosphere was extremely tense at a high-level secret meeting of security and military leaders. Finally, late at night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the go-ahead for ‘Operation Juniper’.
Next morning, several companies of the Indian Army crossed into the Doklam area of Bhutan as part of the operation and formed a human wall to prevent a team of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from constructing a road that would have given the Chinese access to Indian territory.Read More…
