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When Logistics Ruled

The airlift was one of the outstanding successes of the war, carrying 738,667 tons of supplies to China and ferrying 4,671 aircraft over a three-and-one-quarter year period. What made it even more remarkable was the starting point for the airlift was at the end of the world, literally for the United States.

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The Sino-Indian War, 1962

Although India was among the first countries to grant diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1951 changed the situation, with Chinese maps claiming territory south of the McMahon Line (agreed as part of the 1914 Simla Convention) and periodic Chinese cross-border incursions.

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