Dragon’s Mind: The Chinese

Strategic View continues....

Night Day Two/Day Three: Vishakapatnam naval base would come under missile attack from submarine-launched ballistic missiles

with conventional warheads. Balasore missile research station in Orissa

would come under attack by cruise missiles launched from a PLA

submarines in the Bay of Bengal. A simulated amphibious landing near

Cuttack in Orissa would be generated, most of the simulation

electronically generated to feed into all existing surveillance systems;

along with false pre-taped radio and telephone calls giving the same

information arriving on both military and civil communications. An

naval commando raid on Haldia port in West Bengal, would be

mounted by a small naval force moved across the shallow-draft area

adjacent to the Sundarbans delta coastline from Burma’s Arakan coast.

The PLA naval commandos would undertake some port disabling

destruction and depart within the same night. Indian Andaman and

Nicobar Island Command would report a massive offshore naval buildup and an incoming air attack before communications blanked out.

Indian troops on the heights on either side of Jelep La would report

by land-line PLA ground force concentration in the Chumbi valley. All

telephone and radio communications would go dead thereafter in the

entire Sikkim-Kalimpong-Siliguri sector.

Cruise missile and tactical ballistic missile strikes with conventional

warheads would commence on all Assam and North Bengal military

airfields. Soon after mid-day PLA helicopter-borne troops of the ‘PLA

Air Force Airborne Corps’ (which was till May 2017 known as the ‘15th Airborne Army) in two-company strength would assault an

unheld feature south of Tawang town and hold it, cutting off Road

Sela-Jang-Tawang.

The helicopters would have then executed a sharp dog-leg turn to approach the Tawang area from the South-South-East. The

helicopters would then have flown boldly northwards over Bumla and

into Tibet. Just before last light another wave of helicopters would land

at the site previously occupied, having arrived by a somewhat different

flight route, bringing the third company of the three-company infantry

battalion. The battalion would have re-adjusted and occupied their prerecced and selected defended localities by nightfall, digging in through Night Three-Four to be well-organised for defence by first light Day Four.

To be continued.....