The PLA could, with minimal casualties and time, defeat the mid-ranked Indian military. Not only are we technological laggards, but suffer from strategic weakness and tactical inferiority too.
The immediate need for infrastructure and credible military ecosysytem is all very well. But the PLA’s ability to fight a transformational, algorithm war—non-kinetic and non-contact—is the danger in the future.
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