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| | Sino-Indian War oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | However, after the PRC occupied Tibet in 1950, the Indian government under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru adopted a policy of forward military deployment in the border area. |
 | | Nehru was attending a Commonwealth Prime Minister's conference in London, and when told of the act, told the media the Army had been instructed to "free our territory." However, Nehru's directives to Defense Minister V.K. Krishna Menon were unclear, and the response, codenamed Operation LEGHORN, was slow to move. |
 | | On October 12, Nehru proclaimed India's intention to drive the Chinese out of areas India claimed. |
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