![]() It states that the Indian government, which would have been keen to recover territory, advocated a cautious policy, but that the Army Headquarters dictated a policy that was militarily unsound. The report was critical of the Indian Army high command of the time as well as of the execution of operations. ![]() Part 2 contained "detailed lessons" in the tactical sphere, written for a more general distribution. The leaked version of the report reveals that the report was divided into two parts. There were two copies of the report, one with General Chaudhuri and the second with Chavan under Pradhan's own care. Chavan, the report was in seven bound volumes, along with appendices. Pradhan, the private secretary of Defence Minister Y. Scholar Willem van Eeekelen states that General Chaudhuri did not want to "dig too deeply" into the conduct of the top military echelon. The commission had access to the directives issued to the lower levels of the army command but these did not provide information about the political directions given by the civilian authorities. The functioning of the Army Headquarters was outside the purview of the commission, as was the civilian direction of the army. The published version was not validated by the Indian government but scholars generally take it to be authentic. Journalist Neville Maxwell acquired a copy of Part I of the report and published it on his blog site. ![]() The lessons learned from it were summarised by the defence minister Y. The Government of India has left the report classified, citing national security reasons. The report was mainly written by Brig. Bhagat. Henderson Brooks and Brigadier Premindra Singh Bhagat, a Victoria Cross recipient and a former Director of Military Intelligence. Chaudhuri, the Acting Army Chief at the time. The Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report (or the Henderson Brooks report) is the report of an investigative commission, which conducted an Operations Review of the Indian Army's operation during the Sino-Indian War of 1962. Military review of India's performance in the 1962 Sino-Indian War
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