ABSTRACT
The Forward Policy of India was directly under Jawaharlal Nehru, who conducted it through the Intelligence Bureau, with the exploration work having been done under Foreign Secretary T.N. Kaul. The general was not willing to carry out the offensive Forward Policy and the prime minister's war designs on China. Wales Hengen observes, 'The plot that B.N. Mullik prepared was to surreptitiously sell the idea to Nehru and then make everyone accept it as a formalized doctrine of forward policy, the brilliant strategy that neutralized the Chinese menace’. China's action in 1962 was a punitive one for giving shelter to Dalai Lama, for the Forward Policy and for acting as a collaborator with the social imperialist Russia and hegemonic imperialist America. In reality, Forward Policy was an action short of war itself taken by Nehru with the connivance of America and Russia.
