Facts about 1962 Sino-Indian war

To a question what he hopes to achieve by revealing HBR,Maxwell said: "I hope to achieve what I have been trying to do for nearly 50 years! To rid Indian opinion of the induced delusion that in 1962 India was the victim of an unprovoked surprise Chinese aggression, to make people in India see that the truth was that it was mistakes by the Indian government, specifically Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, that forced the war on China.He said his putting the report online deprives the Government of India "the excuse they've used to keep it secret, the false claim that it was to preserve national security".